People Quotes - Page 315

There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people get registered, study the issues and be aware of the politics of our country. We will really be set back if people don't take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave.

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.