The truest expression of a people by Agnes De Mille

The truest expression of a people
by Agnes De Mille

Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt

"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill

The universe must exist for the self-expression
of God and the delight of God.
- Ernest Holmes

I am a Unique Expression
of the Universal Fabric of Creation.
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form
in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated
by them that whatever of special value women
have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Being practical" is the antithesis of having faith and love.
"Being practical" is an expression of fear.
When you live from love and faith, you will be compassionate,
confident, and loving -- and no longer feel the need to "be practical."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a unique expression
of the universal fabric of creation;
I am that I am that I am.
In the eternity of all creation,
I am the only ME that ever will be;
and I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek

When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous

People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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