People Quotes - Page 1095

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.

Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.

I can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.

The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.