With People Quotes

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.