All Quotes

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
‐‐ Haniel Long

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.
‐‐ Carolyn Chute

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
‐‐ Mark Twain

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
‐‐ Harry Browne

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
‐‐ Gary Cherone

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
‐‐ Irvin D. Yalom

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
‐‐ Johnny Weissmuller

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
‐‐ Howard Zinn

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
‐‐ Sol Hurok

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
‐‐ Nathan Fillion

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
‐‐ Paula Abdul

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
‐‐ Terrence Malick

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
‐‐ Matisyahu

When people feel good, they look good.
‐‐ Lily James

When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
‐‐ Gustavo Dudamel

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
‐‐ John Ortberg

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli

When people find out that I've written 208 novels, they ask, 'How did you think of all that?' Well, I answer, 'How do you not think of it?' I see a gum wrapper on the ground, and I think, 'Oh, a Russian spy probably dropped that.' I just think like that, and those thoughts go through my mind constantly.
‐‐ Gilbert Morris

When people find out you're an actress, they Google you.
‐‐ Laverne Cox

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
‐‐ Malese Jow

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
‐‐ Randy Couture

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
‐‐ Al Gore

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
‐‐ Dave Davies

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
‐‐ Chip Conley

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
‐‐ Joseph Campbell

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
‐‐ Ichiro Suzuki

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

When people get scared, they quit giving.
‐‐ Dave Ramsey

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.
‐‐ David Rakoff

When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
‐‐ Maggie Q

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.
‐‐ Steve Prefontaine

When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
‐‐ Gautam Singhania