People Quotes - Page 178

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you're Canadian and people laugh

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

It’s better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

Good people don't smoke marijuana.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.