The People Quotes

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

See the good in people and help them.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.