Quotes About People

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy for that child. It does not at all, under any circumstances, diminish their responsibility for what they do.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.

I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly the destruction.

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

The members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria are also part of the Syrian people, and they have the right to exercise their democratic rights.

A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.

I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

Maybe the future of Syria will not be a presidential system where one person will have all the power, so, the discussion about who should and should not rule Syria will become irrelevant. Let the Syrian people decide.

Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.