People Quotes - Page 405

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

When you're in relationships with people, not every relationship is the same and not every love that you find is the same. The love that you get from each person is totally different. You learn, from each relationship, that there are many different ways that you can love someone.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.