People Quotes - Page 1127

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.