People Quotes - Page 596

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.

Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.