Famous Quotes & Sayings

David R. Brower

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

David R. Brower

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

David Nabarro

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

David Myers

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

David Morse

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

Cai Guo-Qiang

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Cab Calloway

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

Byron Katie

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

Byron Katie

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

Byron Katie

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

Byron Katie

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

Byron Katie

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Byron Katie

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

Buddy Rice

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

Bryan White

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

Bryan Ferry

Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

Bryce Courtenay

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Bryan Stevenson

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Bryan Stevenson

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

Bryan Stevenson

The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

Bryan Stevenson

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

Bryan Stevenson

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Bryan Stevenson

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

Bryan Stevenson

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Cesar Romero

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Cesare Pavese

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

Cesare Pavese

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Cesare Pavese

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .

Catherine Booth

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it

Catherine Booth

Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.

Catherine Bell

But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.