People Quotes - Page 141

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?