Quotes on People

I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.