People Quotes - Page 258

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on the other the Christians with all the blood. That's not a level playing field. That's a slaughter. And so is putting people into the economy without equipping them with capital, while equipping a tiny handful of people with hundreds and thousands of times more than they can use.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do

Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?