Crowd Quotes - page 4

20.02.94, Kyiv, 18:15 a boy from the crowd: - Sofia Mihailovna, how many languages do you speak? - I speak Moldavian, Ukrainian and Russian, but what is important is that we understand each other. (Sofia Rotaru)
I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up. View quote
Angus Young
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? View quote
William Cullen Bryant
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. View quote
William Wordsworth
A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. View quote
Max Beerbohm
How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. View quote
Alberto Manguel
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive. (Charles Dickens)
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue. View quote
Arthur Symons
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. View quote
Aldous Huxley
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come. View quote
Johannes Kepler
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Theyre a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together.' View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a vertiable revolution takes place. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. View quote
Albert Einstein
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. (Markus Zusak)
I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums. View quote
Norman Wisdom
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. View quote
Rick Riordan
You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you. View quote
Suzanne Somers