“Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.”
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People Quotes — page 832 of 5018
“The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”
“That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.”
“We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.”
“When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.”
“When I say something funny, I don’t laugh, so my friends are always like, ‘Hahahahaaaa!’ so people know. When I’m not with them, I always think, This person doesn’t know I’m funny; they just think I’m a jerk.”
“I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.”
“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”
“I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.”
“[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.”
“When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.”
“Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.”
“People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.”
“When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.”
“It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.”
“My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.”
“Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.”
“I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.”
“I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.”
“When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.”