People Quotes
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
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.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.
You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.
I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.