Hill People Quotes

#1. As the economies of Kentucky and West Virginia lagged behind those of their neighbors, the mountains had only two products that the industrial economies of the North needed: coal and hill people. And Appalachia exported a lot of both. Precise

J.D. Vance

#2. My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Patti Davis

#3. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

E. M. Forster

#4. Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

Dan Hill

#5. No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

Napoleon Hill

#6. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

#7. I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

Faith Hill

#8. People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

Lee Smith

#9. Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.

Malcolm X

#10. I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.

Dule Hill

#11. The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

Dan Hill

#12. Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

Hill Harper

#13. Love is like this, Faye thinks now. We love people because they love us. It's narcissistic. It's best to be perfectly clear about this and not let abstractions like fate and destiny muddle the issue. Peggy, after all, could have picked any boy in the school.

Nathan Hill

#14. The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

Hill Harper

#15. We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

Faith Hill

#16. You can either go to bed satisfied with your efforts today or stressed with what you left for tomorrow. You can either work hard to take on the hill or never know what it is that people see at the top.

Joe De Sena

#17. These, and many of the other best-known legends of the Rosebud, are false ... the ghost stories of people who have seen too many horror movies and who think they know exactly how a ghost story should be.

Joe Hill

#18. In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

Dan Hill

#19. A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

Lauryn Hill

#20. Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

Napoleon Hill

#21. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#22. It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.

Grace Livingston Hill

#23. He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetised with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds. By means with which no one is familiar, these 'magnets' attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonise with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#24. Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

Dan Hill

#25. I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

Jonah Hill

#26. It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Lauryn Hill

#27. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you - finish you - as much as you create you.

Joe Hill

#28. People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans.

Lynn Barber

#29. Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Hill Collins

#30. TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

Sasha Jackson

#31. I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

Jonah Hill

#32. The creative process isn't easy, even for chocolate-fountain people. It's more like a wobbly, drunken journey down a very steep and scary hill, not knowing if there's a sheer cliff at the end of it all. But it's worth the journey, I promise.

Felicia Day

#33. I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. 'Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people..' So I decide to see it through his eyes.

Jennifer Niven

#34. I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Joe Hill

#35. But the thing about my granddad is ... it's kind of hard to convince him people won't just do the right thing. You hate to say anything that sounds hostile or untrusting or small-hearted around him. You feel like he'd be disappointed in you.

Joe Hill

#36. It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Napoleon Hill

#37. I guess people do have different ways of dealing with stuff,' she said diplomatically, 'but you can't run away for ever.

Melissa Hill

#38. I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

Lauryn Hill

#39. People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.

C. JoyBell C.

#40. Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Napoleon Hill

#41. I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

Max Beckmann

#42. I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

Alvin Lee

#43. The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

Napoleon Hill

#44. People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

Hill Harper

#45. I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.

Judith Hill

#46. A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Lauryn Hill

#47. A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

Michael Moore

#48. When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

Jonah Hill

#49. I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

Lauryn Hill

#50. No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.

Joe Hill

#51. It's the space between them where everything important is, where it appears nothing resides. It defines the people, the music.

Joey W. Hill

#52. I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

Jonah Hill

#53. Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Napoleon Hill

#54. I am not the kind of goddess of victory that people cheer for. I am merely a marionette who is fighting to cut off her own strings. At my feet is a hill covered in skeletons ... I am nothing but an angel of death.

Kaori Yuki

#55. People would believe almost any awful thing their private devil told them.

Joe Hill

#56. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.

Nathan Hill

#57. We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common ... The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Anita Hill

#58. If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

Anita Hill

#59. My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

Lauryn Hill

#60. One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth.

Tom Cunningham

#61. It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

Hill Harper

#62. Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

Napoleon Hill

#63. Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.

Joe Hill

#64. Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.

Hill Harper

#65. Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

Napoleon Hill

#66. The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

Napoleon Hill

#67. People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Hill Harper

#68. The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Napoleon Hill

#69. One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.

Napoleon Hill

#70. But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Anita Hill

#71. Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.

Phil Hill

#72. They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

Napoleon Hill

#73. I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

Judith Hill

#74. I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

Lauryn Hill

#75. It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!

Lauryn Hill

#76. As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.

Mark Driscoll

#77. Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism,

Howard Zinn

#78. Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

Napoleon Hill

#79. Soon there would be the evening call to prayer and all over Zinder people would be thanking Allah for the gift of one more day, of one more moment in which to live and breathe.

Kathleen Hill

#80. Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

Napoleon Hill

#81. The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There's a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.

Nathan Hill

#82. I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Damon Hill

#83. I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

Jonah Hill

#84. They're not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe." "Isn't that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don't care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And

Joe Hill

#85. The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham

Tom Cunningham

#86. People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

#87. People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

Ray Liotta

#88. No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.

Joe Hill

#89. I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

Banks

#90. The best method of protecting oneself against the inflow of negative thoughts being released by other people is that of keeping the broadcasting station so busy sending out positive thoughts that no time will be available for receiving negative thoughts. This formula is unbeatable.

Napoleon Hill

#91. When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

#92. I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Lauryn Hill

#93. Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

Joe Hill

#94. Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

Benny Hill

#95. It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.

Ella Eyre

#96. I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

Lauryn Hill

#97. People were entranced by flame and repelled by human suffering, and wasn't that some kind of design flaw?

Joe Hill

#98. Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

Susan Hill

#99. If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

#100. While the priest prayed over me, I thought, "Friendship" was probably a good word to choose, after all. Without people to love and be loved by, I don't imagine faith is very sustainable.

Wesley Hill