Quotes on People

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

Racism kills people. It kills people!

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.