Quotes on People

I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.