With People Quotes

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

People comment on how you look, it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to the interior of the mind and heart.

I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

I don't know but maybe it's fair to say that some of the responsibility lies with the American people and not just on the leaders.

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

I spoke in front of a huge gathering in Seattle, and someone got up and said, "I'm just so afraid." I said, "The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid."

Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.