Paul Simon Quotes

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Jesus
  • Blame
  • Drive

• It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Years

• I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Pockets
  • Clerks

• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Money
  • Health

• I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Words

• The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • Purpose

• There will always be apologists for the powerful and politically connected who commit crimes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Powerful
  • Crimes
  • Politically

• I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Money
  • Vegas
  • Pockets

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Money
  • Destiny

• Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wonder
  • Boxes
  • Pockets

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Back
  • Hearts
  • Empty

• It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Communication
  • Human Beings
  • Human Improvement

• Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Achieve
  • Human Beings
  • Faculties

• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Life
  • Human Beings

• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Human Beings
  • Advances

• The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Want
  • Best

• A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Earth
  • Management

• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mistake
  • Slavery
  • Selfish

• It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Human Beings
  • Crimes
  • Pockets