When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

I speak to lots of people around the world, and no one would tell you that 25 basis points will make a difference to them.

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.

Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

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