People Quotes - Page 708

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

Dumb people are just blissfully unaware of how dumb they are.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them

Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.

Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.

I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don't even know, of all the things that you could accomplish.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.