With People Quotes
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.
If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about.
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.
I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
Most people are afraid to follow their dreams. The thought of failure is too much for them to handle so they never even try to achieve them.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.
I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".
You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.
When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.
My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.
If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.
Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.
If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.
Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.
