“I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingSongCoursesLevelsRecordsFineCoupleHigherInvolvedFedsConstructionHigher LevelFed Up Author:Michael Gira
“But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986 to today there are hundreds cases that are registered under the protection of blasphemy law. And until today, no case against any minorities, and especially Christians, is proved in the higher court. The lower court would order punishment but the higher court would always acquit people. So it proves that this law is being used as a tool of victimization against minorities and innocent people of Pakistan.” PeopleTodayChristianLawUsedOrderCasesHigherProveToolsCourtProtectionPunishmentInnocentCodeMinoritiesStrictPakistanBlasphemyVictimization Author:Shahbaz Bhatti
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWholeUsedLiteratureOpinionAudienceCollegeAmountHigherNewsBiggerEnormousUsed To BeConsumersPrintDiverseHigher Education Author:Louis Menand
“If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will go up reflecting the higher value of this company. You might have information because you trade with them or because you've done some research on them.” PeopleIfsFeelsDoneMightValuesCompanyInformationHigherResearchTradeReflectingUndervaluedStock Price Author:Robert F. Engle
“There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.” PeopleLittlesDifferentSinPerfectPerspectiveNeededHigherAngelEvolveFallenApesDifferent Perspective Author:John Shelby Spong
“If I had to bring the whole conspiracy in all its forms into one area, it would be to manipulate people into left-brain reality. That’s the key. Once they are in left-brain reality-it’s the area that decodes everything as apart, everything in terms of individuals, structure and language, rationality as we call it. Then you are parking them in the droplet. The left brain is great if it’s used to translate higher awareness into a form that we can work with here.” PeopleIfsWholeRealityWould BeFormUsedIndividualLeftLanguageTermBrainAwarenessKeysHigherAreasStructureConspiracyTranslateRationalityManipulateParkingLeft BrainDroplets Author:David Icke
“American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people." That's not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.” PeopleWayHumansCountryAmericaHuman BeingsClassHigherYeahBunchExceptionBroadsExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveLooksBookIdeasForceI BelieveRealizingNumbersCompassionAudienceGreaterRevolutionKeysHigherTransformationAddBuyingGoodwillPersonal TransformationBuying Books Author:Marianne Williamson
“Some people never know that they happen, some people never know that they had a shot to know whatever it is their dream is because they were in the wrong mental spot. But if you believe in God, or you believe in some higher power, or something... because if you think about it, our brains are only meant to fathom what we see.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveDreamHappensBrainHigherShotsSpotsBelieve In GodIf You BelieveHigher PowerFathom Author:Ryan Montgomery
“We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.” PeopleMenWellsMeanStatesLevelsIssuesTakenHigherTablesRidiculousBehaveRepresentationGetting HighProminence Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.” PeopleWellsPersonsHateExampleHigherAngryUnhappyMonk Author:Robert Thurman
“In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.” PeopleCountryFactsViewsSecurityTrumpHigherProgramSafetyPrioritiesTerroristRefugeeSuspendedIndianaTerrorist AttacksSafety And SecuritySyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.” PeoplePlayWantedTogetherCommunityStruggleSawsMissingEventsHigherMusicianMeaningfulGravity Author:Dave Madden
“In an economic recession, naturally, when you ask people to list their priorities, they're going to place a higher priority on the immediate economic situation.” PeopleAsksSituationEconomicHigherListsPrioritiesRecessionsEconomic Recession Author:Al Gore
“There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.” PeopleYearsStatesHelpingFeelingsGovernmentJobsLastsYoungLeftChangedHigherConcernWesternAverageUnemploymentPoorestState GovernmentPrettiest Author:Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
“It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.” PeopleProblemScienceHigherSolutionsEffectivenessSolution To A Problem Author:Roger Lewin
“Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.” PeopleWayMindRightsEffectsHigherAmbitionTrainingGainsInjusticeReasonableDistinctionThrowingApologizingBrighterCastesBelittle Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.” PeopleBrainRiskHigherAreasPhonesCancerUrbanRural AreasUrban AreasBrain Cancer Author:Devra Davis
“Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.” PeopleShouldEnoughHigherStandardsAreasOfficersHigh Standards Author:Brandon Marshall
“I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.” PeopleThinkingLevelsHigherIllusionEntering Author:T. D. Jakes
“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.” PeopleFeelsTermEventsHigherAnxietyMassEvidenceTraumaUnpredictable Author:Michael Helm
“People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.” PeopleThinkingReasonLevelsEconomyHigherDebtRecoveryCyclesRecessionsHigher LevelReviveDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“Fares are higher [and] people don't travel as much. If they don't do that, it doesn't have the trickle down effect into the economy and the other sectors.” PeopleIfsEconomyEffectsHigherTrickle Down Author:David Neeleman
“If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.” PeopleIfsHardHelpingPainTogetherLife IsPurposeDiesAnswersPerspectiveHigherEternalNobleThis LifeWorking TogetherPurpose Of Life Author:Max Lucado
“Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.” PeopleIfsChoicesGivenPlansTroubleHigherPercentDoctorsExplanationHospitalsHealthcareSixtySeventiesMedicareFree ChoiceQualifying Author:Ralph Nader
“I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.” PeopleGivingCertainFatherPovertyEconomicHigherStandardsConsequenceCancerObjectivesStandards Of LivingHigher Standards Author:Indira Gandhi
“Many people think the Pleiadians are in spirit form, but they're not. They exist as a civilization in the fifth/sixth dimensional evolution, which is unconditional love, so they hold a much higher frequency of evolution than we do here on the planet at this time, and they are here to really bring the knowledge, the understanding, and initiations for us to align back to our own personal power.” PeopleThinkingFormSpiritUnderstandingPlanetsEvolutionHigherCivilizationUnconditional LoveFifthUnconditionalFrequencyPersonal PowerInitiation Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside people look at you and think of what you could be doing better. Those are voluntary, but most of the companies told me they're going to do it. And I think it's good for them to say our returns on equity, for example, should be higher. Also, I think some could be more ambitious.” PeopleThinkingShouldLooksTwoCompanyExampleReturnHigherDirectorsIndependentFocusedAmbitiousEquity Author:Jamie Dimon
“Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."” PeopleWritingChildrenMovingOpportunityBlackPresidentPovertyHigherBarackBlack PeoplePresident Barack ObamaYes We CanEpilogues Author:Julianne Malveaux
“An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.” PeopleHelpingFilmGamesWinningWatchesPlayerHigherStrongerCoachesAgentsFasterDrafting Author:Lou Holtz
“The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesFallReligiousAnswersHigherCallingConcernWorkersMarketplacePsychologistPredicamentsHigher Calling Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.” PeopleThinkingSeemsNamesStuffInterestMediaTrumpHigherConflictConcernSellsConflict Of Interest Author:Rand Paul
“There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?” PeopleLevelsCompanyGroupsPositionIndustryHigherBuiltOkayOvercomingMinoritiesExecutivesDisadvantagesHigher LevelPosition Of PowerMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“People with education get out of the classroom as soon as they can and jump into administration or higher ed, there just needs to be some motivating factor for teachers to stay in the classrooms and excel. It's that simple.” PeopleNeedsSimpleTeacherHigherFactorsAdministrationClassroom Author:Raheem Jarbo
“We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.” PeopleIfsWorldLongWarEconomyHavensMovementHigherMassLong TimeComplainingWar Of The WorldsJapanWorld War ISyriaInflationNorth Africa Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCertainFeltTalkingCreativityKnow HowCreativeListeningHigherHappeningsFlowConnectedHookPipeHendrix Author:Judd Apatow
“Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that.” PeopleJobsLastsLostDifficultRiskTrumpHigherComputerTradeWorkersDecadesChineseWinnerBarriersRobotsMexicanDifficult TimesTariffs Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I feel like I've got the skills to be at the top, I feel like I've got the mind-state, so basically what I'm saying is there's people all around me, there's artists all around me that are in my zone, but I still feel alone. I feel like I can't relate to them as much as I can related to maybe somebody that was a little bit higher up.” PeopleFeelsMindLittlesStillsI CanStatesArtistBitsHigherSkillsLittle BitRelateRelatedZone Author:SonReal
“If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.” PeopleIfsWayTryingFactsPastValuesHigherWasteResourcesAreasCapacityIncludingSeekingValuableAccessImmigrationIncomeOne WayRangeSheepPeasantsMedievalReceiverPastures Author:James M. Buchanan
“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.” PeopleThinkingSaidProblemHouseLevelsHigherOffersSolutionsGreenClimateClimate ChangeProductionsSolveMindsetFuelEngineeringPollutionAgricultureFossilsParadigmFossil FuelAdmittingHigher LevelIndustrialization Author:Vandana Shiva
“When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.” PeopleKnowsWorldWarProblemForceWaitingHigherRateWar Of The WorldsWorld War IInfectionWorld War 1Pandemics Author:Bill Gates
“Even if you have an ADA room, every disability is so different that people need different things. A lot of times they'll put something on the toilet to make it higher, and for someone transferring from their chair that's fine, but I transfer from the floor so it causes more problems.” PeopleIfsNeedsDifferentProblemCausesRoomsFineHigherChairsDifferent ThingsDisabilityToiletsTransfersAda Author:Zach Anner
“Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.” PeopleThinkingLittlesArtTodayFormComedyHard WorkHigherStandardsHarderCriticalAnalysisBrutalPopularityWork HarderJudgmentalStand Up ComedyHigher StandardsCritical Analysis Author:Joe Rogan
“America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.” PeopleWorldNeedsStillsImportantStatesAmericaNationsUnitedUnited StatesHigherResearchAreasPouringEducation SystemHigher EducationLead InBest EducationEducation For AllGeneral EducationBasic Research Author:John Glenn
“In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.” PeopleIfsLightPoorCitiesDarknessCarHigherGunBiggerFellowsShiningHotelGatesGetting HighDelhiCreviceLice Author:Arundhati Roy
“There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.” PeopleIfsMindIdeasReasonFactsProblemLawHappenedSpecialParticularEvolutionHigherCreatingCapableCapacityPressureStructureRateSurprisingReflectingReproductionContingency Author:Noam Chomsky
“People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.” PeopleGovernmentLevelsPositionHigherEconomicsDeterminedImmigrationSophisticatedCommentaryHigher Level Author:Mark Helprin
“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.” PeopleThinkingSpeakLanguageViewsPoetHigherOrdinaryPlanesDaily LifeOrdinary People Author:Stephen King