For The People Quotes

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.

There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.