People Quotes - Page 109

Sunflowers are like people to me.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity