People Quotes - Page 112

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

Some people say I'm a pussy. I say, you are what you eat.

Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.