With People Quotes

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

I am because other people are.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

I have a lot of time for young people.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can.

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

I help people own their lives.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.