People Quotes - Page 450

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things.

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.