Quotes about People
We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
— Charles Swindoll
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
— Charles Swindoll
Prayer is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
— Charles Stanley
Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
— H Richard Niebuhr
One of the most important differences between Judaism and Christianity is that we were a people before we had a religion.........throughout it all, it is the participation in the community that defines us as Jews; the creeds and rituals are secondary.
— Harold S. Kushner
Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.
— Harold S. Kushner
Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.
— Harry S. Truman
The program—which is all about taking care of people so they are better able to care for
— Jane Goodall
Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
— Clayton M. Christensen
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
— Sonia Sotomayor
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
— Josh McDowell
Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
— Harry S. Truman