People Quotes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.