People Quotes - Page 777

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you?

Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

I know that everybody is seeking bliss. And they're all looking for it mostly in the wrong ways, and as a result of that, they err, but there's no reason to hate them; they just don't know any better. Jesus himself on the cross said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." And so people who hate you, that's their problem. It doesn't have to be your problem. I wish them well.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.