Top 100 How People Are Quotes
#1. You don't have to show people how successful you are.
Martin Yan
#2. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.
Tim Gunn
#3. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
Charles De Lint
#4. True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
Julie-Anne
#5. Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.
Rico Rodriguez
#6. All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
Claudia Gray
#7. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch
#8. A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.
Manny Montana
#9. When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
Frank Abagnale
#10. There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?
Dan Chaon
#11. When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?
Jaron Lanier
#12. When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.
Patricia McCormick
#13. Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
Terry Pratchett
#14. Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#16. I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?
Libba Bray
#18. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#19. The people who need us the most are drawn to us, no matter how we try to outrun them. They find us and eventually they heal us, no matter how resistant we are.
S.E. Jakes
#20. If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
Will Rogers
#21. Pity how people are much loved and appreciated when they can no longer witness(late)
Evans Biya
#22. Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes."
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"But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.
Charles De Lint
#23. It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."
Justin Vernon
#24. How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?
Katherine Reay
#25. Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
John Geddes
#26. People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.
Maggie Q
#27. Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.
Bree Despain
#28. Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
Anita Roddick
#29. I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Mort Sahl
#30. So you'll have to just trust me when I say that you are worthy, important, and necessary. And smart. You may ask how I know and I'll tell you how. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. Other,
Jenny Lawson
#31. My senses are consumed by their chatter, the sound of sneakers on the floor, laughter. These people are always in motion, always full of a life I lack, no matter how much I pretend.
Kelsey Sutton
#32. Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.
Howard Hesseman
#33. I felt ashamed."
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal
of being a mortal."
"But how could you help that?"
"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?
C.S. Lewis
#34. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
Jonathan Kozol
#35. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
Alice Walker
#36. People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind of like biding time until you get your feedback. So, it's like, once the public can consume what you're putting out there, then you know. Then you know hit, miss, in between.
Phil Anselmo
#37. There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
Dominic Cooper
#38. She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony.
Chuck Wendig
#39. I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.
Daniel Clowes
#40. While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.
Rosanne Cash
#41. It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.
Ella Henderson
#42. I always say to my people, how come I'm always audited and friends of mine are never audited?
Donald Trump
#43. The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
Jeff Goodell
#44. You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.
Prefuse 73
#45. And that's the beginning of the primary conversation in African American literature, right there: the African descendant explaining to the European descendant about how white people's actions are affecting the lives of black people.* In
Mat Johnson
#46. I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.
Adam Duritz
#47. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
Oliver Goldsmith
#48. Trying to show people how talented and bright you are is the best way to make an idiot of yourself, and we ended up doing that with flying colors.
Paul Stanley
#49. It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
Amy Poehler
#50. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
Wynton Marsalis
#52. People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.
John Scalzi
#53. Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio.
William Kamkwamba
#54. Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
William Stafford
#55. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#56. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
Adam McKay
#57. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
Brian Ulrich
#58. One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
Callie Khouri
#59. Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?
Calvin Miller
#60. Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle
#61. What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.
Robert Kegan
#62. The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,
Romina Russell
#63. At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.
Harriet Rubin
#64. Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.
Snoop Dogg
#65. What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
Brian Chesky
#66. Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#67. A lot crystallized in Phil's mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that's true or irrefutable.
Philip Houston
#68. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
Judith Light
#69. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
John Scalzi
#71. Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.
William Landay
#72. There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw
Cassandra Clare
#73. When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.
Paula Fox
#74. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.
Robert Thurman
#75. I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
Martin Cruz Smith
#76. But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
Amy Sedaris
#77. If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.
Mads Mikkelsen
#78. People ask the way to Cold Mountain Roads do not go through Summer arrives yet the ice has not melted Though the sun is out it's foggy and dim How did I arrive here? My mind and yours are not the same When our minds are one You will be here too
Hanshan
#79. I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Simon Van Booy
#80. You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Tom Daschle
#82. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
Chris Cleave
#83. The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
Robert Pozen
#85. The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
Margot Kidder
#86. We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.
Akhil Sharma
#87. Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life.
Whitney Port
#88. Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.
Pitigrilli
#89. When you want to know how and why people do the things they do, the best people to learn from are the doers themselves, and the best place to learn is where the doing gets done.
Jan Chipchase
#90. We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.
Pema Chodron
#91. Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
Alan Furst
#92. You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
Randy West
#93. They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.
Frederick Lenz
#94. I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
Jonathan Kozol
#95. Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.
John Gerzema
#96. Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.
Robert James Thomson
#97. Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.
Narendra Modi
#98. What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?
Stacey Dash
#99. I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.
D.H. Lawrence
#100. I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.
Steve Vai
