Top 100 People Today Quotes
#1. The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
Mason Cooley
#2. When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'
Leonard Sweet
#3. I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of the soul that plague many people today. For those who want to address more than just the symptoms of depression, Ed's counsel is invaluable.
Bob Lepine
#4. Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
Bill Mollison
#5. Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
Viola Davis
#6. Don't be sorry. No one in this room can judge you. I've fucked to different people today. And likely a third before the night is over.
Tiffany Reisz
#7. It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
John Lewis
#8. Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#9. Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
#10. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#11. Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.
Pierre Omidyar
#12. I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
Marcus Aurelius
#13. Too many people today want a brotherly world
in which they can remain unbrotherly; a decent world in which they can live indecently. Too many individuals want economic security without spiritual security.
Billy Graham
#14. Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.
Arthur L. Herman
#15. We are saying that if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it. If it did not occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from. I believe that the German people today are also prisoners of the Holocaust.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#16. The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.
Alan Keyes
#17. I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
Julia Child
#18. People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.
Brandon Sanderson
#19. To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.
Rick Warren
#20. When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.
Nick Offerman
#21. People today are developing an aversion to thinking.
Anonymous
#22. People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Steven Pinker
#23. [Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.
Theresa May
#24. People today are quick to bite the hand that fed them yesterday, turn around and cry hungry tomorrow.
Peprah Boasiako
#25. People today find real debate about actual topics difficult, and much prefer the parody of debate which consists of giving a dog a bad name and then beating him for it, and lashing out, too, at anyone who associates with the dog you happen to be beating at the time.
N. T. Wright
#26. Simply put, if you know Jesus and you believe He is still healing people today, He will heal the sick through you.
Praying Medic
#27. Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
Dada Vaswani
#28. I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.
Anonymous
#29. The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
Antonis Samaras
#30. I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins
#31. Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.
Theodore Roosevelt
#32. (Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.) Today
Rainbow Rowell
#33. Bible scholars estimate that there were about 2.5 million Israelites who left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God's will for His people today - all healed, healthy and whole.
Joseph Prince
#34. That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and striking sign of how far we are removed from the thinking of our colonial fathers.
Pat Swindall
#35. People today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
George Albert Wells
#36. They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992,
Barbara Stocking
#38. People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
John C. Maxwell
#39. Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
#40. Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?
John N. Gray
#41. Nasty. We're meeting a bunch of important people today, and you're supposed to be our new director. You can't show up flaunting how much you crave cock and are scared of soap.
Erica Chilson
#42. I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.
Connie Smith
#43. Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
Wang Jianlin
#44. People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on - that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away ...
P.C. Cast
#45. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan
#46. Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.
George Takei
#47. One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
#48. Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#49. You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.
Stedman Graham
#50. The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky Loebel
#51. Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
Elie Wiesel
#52. When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'
Kathy Ireland
#53. I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.
Masha Tupitsyn
#54. People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline ... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.
Frank Partnoy
#55. Long time ago, many pre-human civilizations had developed so advanced
into a level where most people today assume them simply as works of nature.
Toba Beta
#56. I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
Albert Einstein
#57. Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.
Derek R. Audette
#58. I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.
Debbie Reynolds
#59. You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
Charlie Trotter
#60. In 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' you find a most remarkable collection of scholarly work. Over a hundred people have contributed to explaining what the Constitution says, what it means, how it has been interpreted over the years, and how it is important to people today.
Edwin Meese
#61. He spoke!" Ivan said, eyes wide. "The dog talked! Oh my god."
"An ancient witch you can believe in, but not a talking dragon that looks like a dog?" Chudo-Yudo said, sounding slightly piqued. "Hmph. Young people today have such limited imaginations.
Deborah Blake
#62. I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
Emilio Pucci
#63. People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#64. The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.
Robert Glasper
#65. Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him.
Billy Graham
#66. Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.
Robert Shaw
#67. The challenge for people today
and it is not and easy one
is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
Nathaniel Branden
#68. Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex - it is boredom.
Billy Graham
#69. Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be
the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.
Rona Barrett
#70. [Bill] Clinton was able to defeat conservatives, Republicans, at every turn. And so he was given wide latitude, leeway. He could do whatever he wanted and not be condemned for it. But young people today are not prone to rewarding that kind of behavior.
Rush Limbaugh
#72. I don't get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It's such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range." She shrugged. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it.
Alan Dean Foster
#73. Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'
Paul Washer
#74. I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.
Craig Groeschel
#75. People today are dying for something to live for.
J.S.B. Morse
#76. But I also think most people today lose the savor of love and sex through oversophistication and impatience.
George Rockwell
#77. Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
Billy Graham
#78. The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution ... none other.
H. Rap Brown
#79. People today know a lot more about how to become a Christian than about how to be one.
Margaret Feinberg
#80. Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.
Steven Pinker
#81. Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven
#82. Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
Mitchel Resnick
#83. 273. In order to hold on firmly to your faith, you must choose the Road of Hope followed by the disciples of Christ and not the road to death offered by the world. 274. Many people today repeatedly assert, "I
Van Thuan, Francis Xavier Nguyen
#84. 'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy.
George Noory
#85. Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset
Susan Rice
#86. I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no.
Billy Graham
#87. Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009
Richard Holmes
#88. The apostles understood the church to be a movement birthed by the mighty, rushing wind of the Spirit of God. Is that how you see your church? Most people today see the church as an institution, a place to go to, or something to sit through. How did that happen?
J.D. Greear
#89. Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#90. People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
Tim Harford
#91. Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that.
Ayana Mathis
#92. Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl
#93. I'm afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage - ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth ... Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come - as they inevitably do.
Billy Graham
#94. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
#95. Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.
Ron Ben-Israel
#96. Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham
#97. It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
Al Jarreau
#98. I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.
Giovanni Ribisi
#99. No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#100. Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
Ezra Taft Benson
