Quotes About People

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

Sullivan distinguished between fear and anxiety. If a loud noise occurs, if hunger is unaddressed, if tensions of any sort increase, the baby becomes afraid. Fear actually operates as an integrating tendency; as it is expressed in crying and agitation, it draws the caregiver into an interaction that will soothe the baby and address the problem. Anxiety, in contrast, has no focus and does not arise from increasing tension in the baby herself. Anxiety is picked up from other people.

Because God is love, it's a pretty safe bet that whatever way God loves people is the way that we should try to love them also.

Outcasts can interpret reality for themselves. Even when their perception of reality contradicts that of hundreds or thousands of followers, they can clearly see the problems and press for solutions to those problems. Outcasts are unimpressed by position or personhood. They love God and want to protect his people and his institutions from spiritual fraud.

Zweig said of the Joint, "Later, at some future date, we shall again gladly and passionately discuss whether Jews should be Zionists, revisionists, territorialists or assimilationists; we shall discuss the hair-splitting point of whether we are a nation, a religion, a people or a race. All of these time-consuming, theoretical discussions can wait. Now there is but one thing for us to do—to give help.

organizations are made up of people. If this should seem obvious, the implications of acknowledging it are not.

God's providence is designed to do good for his people. God takes meticulous care to ensure our ultimate blessing. His scrupulous care in the unfolding of providence, despite any appearance to the contrary, is calculated to achieve the redemption of his people. All things work together for their good (Rom 8:28) - good things and evil things.

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people.