Quotes About People

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

In spite of his policeman's conditioning, he clung to the belief he'd grown up with: that people, by and large, behaved according to how they were treated.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

This business of giving people what they want is a dope pusher's argument. News is something people don't know they're interested in until they hear about it. The job of a journalist is to take what's important and make it interesting.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys ' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I hope that I would leave a legacy of joy. A legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is great joy in real compassion. I don't think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people – caring enough about people that you actually do something.

Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

God transforms and saves a people, not atomized individuals.

An ingenious man can hardly stay with a people against their will; and a sincere man can more hardly, for any interest of his own, remain in a place where he is likely to be unprofitable, to hinder the good which they might receive from another man, who hath the advantage of a greater interest in their estimation and affection.

Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).

physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.

We owe our freedom to extraordinary people,' he told the assembled crowd. 'The bad, the evil, doesn't have the last word. It is ultimately goodness and laughter and joy and caring and compassion.

mismo principio aplica para las actitudes positivas de la gente: no se puede entrenar la actitud: hay que contratarla.

Respect is how to treat people, not just those you want to impress.

Raymond also distrusted all other living people because they had not warned his father of his mother.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to people if they have barbarian8 souls.

God's love never says, "I don't want to change you." Because God's love is holy, He intends to change us by loving means, so that we will become the holy people we were always meant to be.

He never wrote a book about the state, because it wasn't the center or focus of his analyses. That focus was rather the relationships among people as they go about producing their existence: relationships such as master-slave, lord-serf and employer-employee.