With People Quotes

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

The only boring people I know are bored people.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?