Quotes About People

I've been here a long time," I said finally. "But I think what I truly believe in is people. They can always surprise you. They have such potential . . . They can change and grow and become so much more than they or anyone else would ever have thought possible. Unlike gods. And at the end of the day, I believe that people should be kind to each other.

Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?" "You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Some people, when they have a holiday, just want to go to salt coats, twenty-five miles along the coast from Glasgow. Some people don't even want to that. They are happy to stay at home or watch the birds and the ducks float by in the park. And some want to go to the moon. It's all about people's AMBITIONS.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

But mixing is the way of the world. The world passes through us - food, books, pictures, other people.

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

You've got to love your people more than your position.

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Every night, it's a bakery on the bus. It's a curse, because I talk about how much I love cake, people bring me cake. And now I just found out I'm diabetic, so I'm like, are you kidding me?!

I love people, and the hustle.

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.