With People Quotes

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It's hard to say.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

I like people trying to do two things at once.

There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

"Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.

Transgender people have served, are serving, and will continue to serve.

I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.

Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have experienced no ill effects from that.

The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?

Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do.

It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.