People Quotes - Page 297

There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

I just try to stay around the same people, stick around the same group. That's what kept me out of trouble, because when I got into trouble, it was with people from the outside.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

When people let youd own, God will pick you up.

So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.

There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.