People Quotes - Page 1052

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.

People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.