People Quotes - Page 982

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did things to remind people of Tony Dorsett, but it was a different style. Hes a guy who can catch balls like Marshall Faulk or somebody like that.

I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.