People Quotes

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.