Quotes about People

I will let no man belittle my soul by making me hate him

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things.  Awaken people's curiosity.  It is enough to open minds; do not overload them.  Put there just a spark.  If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

The language is the soul of the people.

It is in the shelter of each other that people live.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Routines are made for people who are affraid of change.

After a long day, folk rest at night.  After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter.  After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

Awareness is everything. ... People worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born.  But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function.  I see things in a much more holistic way.  Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

People talk over situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

As I go seeing people, I greatly fear I may be seeing some of them for the last time. Morbid really, but I suppose realistic too.

-Sandy Woodward-

"The very word `secrecy`is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."

-John F. Kennedy-

My joy is that, one day, all people will live inside a vibrant awareness and love affair with Life.

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.

-Jeremy Clarkson- 

Words: they can't be changed, rewound, or taken back, they make their mark signing into the guestbook of history

You can't live life taking other peoples word for it otherwise you will never live at all.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many -- This in not prophecy, but description.

"we hate in others what we can't see in ourselves."

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

" The essence of life is to honour all paths and all people. For to embrace diversity is to celebrate the beauty of truth and the mystic power of humanity."

A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then can connect it with the consumer. We always say a brand is set of shared values. So if you can simply demonstrate your value system as a brand, so that a consumer could say, "Ah, our values line up. I vote for you, brand!" that's a good ad.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think that is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It;s probably the most important thing in a person.

Words in general and adjectives in particular have power. It is a power that comes in degrees or shadings. People and even societies can make value judgments on others just by the shadings of the words they use. Weird, strange, different and unique are really just different shadings of the same word but evoke completely connotations when applied to individuals or groups of people.

It takes all kinds of people to make the human race
And everyone fits in their own way

 It takes all kinds of people to make the human race.

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone."