People Quotes - Page 337

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

Even though I have many obstacles in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.