People Quotes - Page 1115

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

The only real people are the people who never existed.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

When you do your best, people notice.

Don't live your life to please other people.

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.