People Quotes · Page 569

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

— Rumi

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

— Mason Cooley

“People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.”

— D.R. Silva

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

— Samuel Eto'o

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

— Ben Folds

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

— Daniel Wallace

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

— David O. McKay

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they…

— Catherine Deneuve

Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.

— Angela Ahrendts

While boosting the production of consumer goods, we should channel great efforts into improving the welfare service for the people.

— Kim Jong-un

Rather than enjoying my success I was stressing about it. Wanting it, but at the same time I couldn't handle the consequences.…

— Ashley Walters

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

— Janhvi Kapoor

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

— Tom Dreesen

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to…

— Narada Michael Walden

Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are,…

— Lupe Fiasco

While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people…

— JoAnn Ross

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When…

— Sigourney Weaver

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you…

— Jane Goodall

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to…

— Noam Chomsky

The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than…

— Grace Lee Boggs

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great…

— Jane Austen

Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will…

— Charles Lindbergh

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

— Robert Rodriguez

There is no truth to the claim people who play under Shoaib bhai don't want to play under me.

— Sarfaraz Ahmed

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

— Ted Cruz

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

— Bryan Stevenson

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

— Caroline Kennedy

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

— William Singe

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

— Adolf Loos

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

— G. Willow Wilson

“Why do we despise one another? Don't we have the same God the Father, who created us?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

— Patrick Dixon

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

— Umberto Eco

Everyone's got a purpose and wants to be loved. I think I found my purpose, I think I found love.

— James

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

— Audrey Meadows

Clothes and fashion should work in people's lives. Period.

— Nick Wooster

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

— Scott Pelley