People Quotes - Page 1349

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

We particularly like people who value us highly.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.