People Quotes - Page 252

Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good.

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.

Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.