Noah Quotes

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

A national language is a band of national union.

When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.