People Quotes - Page 489

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.

At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their road, in their later years, enlightened people should be a hundred times more vital in spirit.

He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.