People Quotes - Page 1458

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.

I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that`s going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.

I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.

It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

Right before when the iMac came out is when most people associate Apple started. That's when people remember Apple - that first iMac or that first laptop that was a clam shell. To me everything before that was what was interesting.