People Quotes - Page 879

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

God tests His people through hardship.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.