With People Quotes

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.