People Quotes - Page 1348

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

There are moments that aren't great. And I think it's amazing for people to be able to have some insight, to be able to see the support system and what really happens.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.