Quotes 741 till 760 of 1233.
-
Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
-
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
-
People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
-
People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
-
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
-
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
-
People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
-
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
-
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
-
Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
-
Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
-
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry in Complete Poems (1950) -
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
-
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
-
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
-
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
-
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
-
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
-
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
All break-through famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 38)
