People Quotes - Page 383

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?

I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.