Crowds Quotes - Page 28

• But Fate does iron wedges drive,
  And always crowds itself betwixt.

  Andrew Marvell

  Fate, Iron, Doe

  Andrew Marvell, Bill Hutchings (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Psychology Press

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• I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.

  Anna Nalick

  Naked, Diaries, Causes

  Song: Breathe, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005

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• Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Hatred, Depth, Lambs

  C.J. Mahaney (2011). “Christ Our Mediator: Finding Passion at the Cross”, p.66, Multnomah

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• There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people, jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Jumping, People, Drunk

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Fans, Three, Generations

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• Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

  Jeff Buckley

  Fighting, Walking Dead, Despite

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Independent, Men, Organization

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• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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• It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Opposites, Feelings

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

  Tracy McGrady

  Guy, Standing Out, I Can

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• A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Differences, People, Musician

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

  Fatboy Slim

  Smile, Communication, Bedroom

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• Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Beauty, People

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• The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

  Thomas Nagel

  Choices, Acting, Three

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

  Kim Clijsters

  Support, Behind You, Behinds

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• The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Thinking, Think For Yourself

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.20, Crown Business

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• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

  Peter Thiel

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Appreciate, Judging, Looks

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.

  Marcel Proust

  Spring, Flower, Kissing

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• Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Brain, Expansion

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Work, Home

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• Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Moving, Law

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Secret, Shy, Walks

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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