People Quotes - Page 959

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.

There is one relationship I was in that I learned a lot from. I learned a lot from the situation about myself and about relationships and about love, about how to relate to people, about forgiveness and the stuff that comes with being in a relationship.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.

People cannot live completely by themselves.

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

There's no such thing as other people's children.