People Quotes
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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
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There are some loony people in this world!
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People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
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Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
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You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.
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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
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Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
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Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain kind of minutia, that I think, if you did not have that privilege, would never be bothersome. When people are worried about whether "local" means 100 miles, or 50 miles, or 10 miles from a grocery store, I just think, "Wow. What a privilege it is to have that as a major concern in your life." As opposed to, "Can we afford food tonight?" Sometimes I'm just shocked at what becomes concerning in these kind of communities.
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We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
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Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.
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People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
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If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.
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When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.
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Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.
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I think that's one of the reasons people love The X-Files, because most people do believe that there's something else going on that we don't know, because life is just too bizarre to be the way it is.
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Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
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It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you.
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I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
