People Quotes - Page 12

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.


(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

You say freak, I say unique.

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.
By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

Price of peace could only be valued by
people who had suffered loss in the war.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.