People Quotes - Page 240

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it. And when you try to forget someone's face, you can't get it out of your head.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.