People Quotes
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
J. C. Ryle
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I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
Elayne Boosler
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I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.
Chris Cornell
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
Zadie Smith
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Most people have come to expect an election now.
David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
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I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!
Sandra Cisneros
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(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.
William James
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I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.
Louis Theroux
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The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
Paul Keating
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These days people like Yi are more likely to end up in the Blue House or KBS than in jail.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
Simon Sinek
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If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
Corrine Brown
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
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People, Florence thought as she put on her shoes. What do I need them for again?
Brian Morton
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I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.
Johnny Mathis
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People in the U.S. always got to be spoon-fed. If it's something to difficult to understand, they don't give it a chance. They want something real simple that they can sing along with and play in the clubs and that's about it. In the UK, their whole mind set is completely different.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that are a little out of touch. I think we've seen it happen with certain artists... people can't touch them; they're not touching people. They're only touching people in their circle.
Lena Waithe
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I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.
John Slattery
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Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.
Ellen Wittlinger
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When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.
Naoki Higashida
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Anthony Perkins
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I think I have unique qualities that other people don't have that can contribute to the team.
Megan Rapinoe
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis Diderot
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I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
Josh Kopelman