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Quotes About People

Quite a few people are here to study the European Union. Perhaps there is such a thing as the European Union.
~ Josip Novakovich
Mutants are a community. We're a people and there's no way anybody can make us be what they want. We stick together and don't panic or overreact... you'll see. We're stronger than this. Miss Pryde... are you a #&$%ing retard?
~ Joss Whedon
And, Wind, I am still crazy. I know there is something larger than the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it.
~ Joy Harjo
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There are two types of approval: one is from people, and the other is from God. We want people to approve of us, but if we become addicted to their approval, if we have to have it and are ready to do whatever they demand to get it, we lose our freedom. If we trust God for approval, we are freed from the addiction of approval.
~ Joyce Meyer
Anyone who tries to keep all the people happy all the time will never fulfill their destiny.
~ Joyce Meyer
For we know Him Who said, Vengeance is Mine [retribution and the meting out of full justice rest with Me]; I will repay [I will exact the compensation], says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge and determine and solve and settle the cause and the cases of His people. Hebrews 10:30
~ Joyce Meyer
lookout for God's love to show up in your life. Try not to miss one thing He does. God often works through people, so when someone you know does something kind for you, it is actually God loving
~ Joyce Meyer
We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.
~ Joyce Meyer
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. Look
~ Joyce Meyer
The Bible says our warfare is with the devil, not with people (Ephesians 6:12).
~ Joyce Meyer
As a Spirit-filled believer, you need to take the initiative to treat people the way you want to be treated, not the way they treat you.
~ Joyce Meyer
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
~ Joyce Meyer
People are the same all over the world, I imagine, people who react like that to their countries conspiracies: turning them into tales that are told, like children's fables, and also into place in the memory or the imagination, a place where we go as tourists, to revive nostalgia or to try to find something we've lost.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
He was able to invade a system designed by me. That narrows it down to maybe ten people on the planet. - Pony
~ Jude Watson
The health of the economy was understood to be more valuable and urgent than the health of the people. ... But the transposition of health onto the economy did not just transfer a human attribute to the markets; it literally drained health from living bodies to establish health for the economy. That has been a deadly form of displacement and inversion within the logic of capitalism that comes to the fore within pandemic times.
~ Judith Butler
other words, technologies only come to life and have meaning as people adopt and use them.
~ Judy Wajcman
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
~ Wael Ghonim
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
~ Wallace Stegner
Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost flits past an attic window after dark.
~ Wallace Stegner
It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall
~ Wallace Stegner
But this general business of trusting people, I don't know. I doubt if I can change. I believe in trusting people, do you see? At least till they prove they can't be trusted. What kind of life is it when you can't?
~ Wallace Stegner
Is it compulsory to be one of the immortals? We're all decent godless people, Hallie. Let's not be too hard on each other if we don't set the world afire. There's already been enough of that.
~ Wallace Stegner