For The People Quotes
Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.
Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
I don't have time, I watch movies, or shows people are talking about. Television is the medium I use the least; I'd rather use my computer, iPhone or iPad.
A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.
People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.
I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.
I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.
Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.