People Quotes - Page 314

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

People feel completely anonymous online. They can say whatever they want, do whatever they want, why not go the next step and kill people through the Internet?

Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.