Quotes About People

It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

Oh, one is not always alone you know. I mean so alone that one might go mad. No, there are boats and trains full of people to watch and observe and then, if one ever feels one is really going mad, there is always something to be done about it.

La passion reste en suspens dans le monde, prête à traverser les gens qui veulent bien se laisser traverser par elle.

People are saying: 'Look, there are times when her expression is so severe that it quite alters her. Her beauty changes to... It's hard to interpret. Is it an expression of ferocity or something quite different–compassion?

She, Betty Fernandez, spoke only of people, those she'd seen in the street or those she knew, about how they were, the things still left for sale in the shops, extra rations of milk and fish, good ways of dealing with shortages, with cold and constant hunger, she was always concerned with the practical details of life, she didn't go beyond that, always a good friend, very loyal and affectionate.

Les gens que l'on rencontre dans les rues, pendant le jour, donnent l'impression d'aller vers un but précis, que l'on suppose raisonnable, mais, la nuit, ils paraissent marcher dans leurs rêves.

La gente que encontramos en las calles durante el día nos da la impresión de tener una meta precisa, que se supone razonable, pero por la noche parece caminar en sueños.

I employ this thing I called The Shovel List." "A shovel..?" "No, a shovel list. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.

They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world.

Only people can undo what people have created.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.

Responsibility means response-ability. Fear is speaking loudly in the world today; now we the people need to respond.

Help people soar and they'll build their own economic prosperity, thank you. The paternalism of an economic system that first creates economic hardship for millions, then pretends to know how to assuage it, is delusional. Our current economic model is a holdover from an aristocratic perspective that views people as servants to a system; but our economy should be a system that is a servant to the people.

Our species will either evolve to a more heart-centered consciousness, choosing a greater reverence for planet and people, or we will go extinct due to collective behavior that is maladaptive for our survival.

But people take such trouble with their faults and go to such lengths to make them fascinating to others that it is really very unkind to overlook them,' protested Sidney. 'They would much rather be laughed at on their own merits than politely ignored as members of a community.

I never really hated one true god But the god of all the people I hated

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.