With People Quotes

But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Every time somebody says 'Islamophobia' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

Don't let other people decide who you are.