People Quotes

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.'

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.