All Quotes

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
‐‐ James Spader

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.
‐‐ Jeanne Phillips

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
‐‐ John Sculley

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
‐‐ Emmy Rossum

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'
‐‐ Big Sean

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

People who think I lack desire are wrong.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.
‐‐ Robert Lutz

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
‐‐ Curtis Sittenfeld

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
‐‐ Melanie Griffith

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
‐‐ Rick Bragg

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
‐‐ Philip Yancey

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
‐‐ Bob Hope

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
‐‐ Trisha Yearwood

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
‐‐ Tyson Chandler

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
‐‐ John le Carre

People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
‐‐ Ted Stevens

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
‐‐ Edwidge Danticat

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
‐‐ Gary Ross

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're going to jail. Absent that, you're entitled to say whatever you want to say within reason.
‐‐ Bob Buckhorn

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
‐‐ Dave Barry

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
‐‐ Simeon Strunsky

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
‐‐ David Frum

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
‐‐ Olivier Megaton

People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
‐‐ Greg Louganis

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
‐‐ Len Wein

People who win awards for drama and for crying their eyes out for two hours... it's easy!
‐‐ Rhys Thomas

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
‐‐ Young Jeezy