People Quotes - Page 812

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

When I mentor, I tell people that don't have to look like a supermodel but you have got to feel your best, look your best, and be confident.

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy people who are often very disconnected from the communities they claim to represent.

Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2 Brad Pitt etc...I thought 'Ive got the better deal here'...1 Your sister

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.