People Quotes - Page 820

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

I have a lot of internalised tantrums. I secretly hope the worst and then I start planning my little speech for the beginning of it. Showers are the worst - all the time in the shower I'm planning the next time I'm going to lose it at someone, and then I never actually do. You're almost let down when people are nice.

I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.