People Quotes
Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.
Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.
I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.
He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.