Top 100 When People Quotes
#1. When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
Tom Hiddleston
#2. Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.
Vaclav Smil
#3. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.
DaShanne Stokes
#4. Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.
Donald Trump
#5. Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
Karl E. Weick
#6. I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless.
Donald Miller
#7. There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
Paulo Coelho
#8. GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Jack Dangermond
#9. Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.
Emilio Estevez
#10. Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.
Catherine Hardwicke
#11. When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#12. When people hear me sing, I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.
Celia Cruz
#13. When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.
Elon Musk
#14. Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?
Michael Gambon
#15. In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.
Zoe Cassavetes
#16. What really kills me - it really rips me up - is when people think I'm abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don't go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
Kristen Stewart
#18. When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.
Sandra Bullock
#19. I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"
Usain Bolt
#20. I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Mercedes McCambridge
#22. People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.
Alexa Vega
#23. When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church ... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.
Josh McDowell
#24. I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.
Dita Von Teese
#25. The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.
Barack Obama
#26. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.
Matthew Specktor
#27. Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'
Kurt Browning
#28. When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
Sergei Lukyanenko
#29. Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.
Lucy Corin
#30. Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.
Peter Block
#31. Toru: What happens when people open their hearts?
Reiko: They get better.
Haruki Murakami
#32. I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?
Jason David Frank
#33. And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.
Rowan Coleman
#34. Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
Cecelia Ahern
#35. It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.
Josh Mathews
#36. Happy, beautiful people have no need of God. It is only when people are debased by degeneracy of the mind or body that they consciously seek me out. And I desire to be sought out. Worshiped. For
Nicole Cushing
#37. I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.
Mollie King
#38. Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
David Byrne
#39. Racism and violence were non-existent in this world,
When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas
Marieta Maglas
#40. When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.
Jodhi May
#41. Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
Joyce Kilmer
#42. When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
Sean Durkin
#43. When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
Haniel Long
#44. When people become difficult to love, love them harder and pray for them even more. That's how you overcome evil with good.
Jeanette Coron
#45. When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.
Peter Kinderman
#46. When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#47. But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.
Diana Wynne Jones
#48. In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Liza Minnelli
#49. Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
Felicia Day
#50. When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them.
Cassandra Clare
#51. The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.
Richelle Mead
#52. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
Rollo May
#53. I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.
Jason Bateman
#54. I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.
Madonna Ciccone
#55. I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.
Michel Gondry
#56. When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.
John Madden
#57. I never get mad when people hear my name wrong because I think to myself, Maybe they have hearing issues, excess earwax or something.
Kasie West
#58. ...why, when people write words do they capitalize "I"? Why not capitalize "You" too? For You are as important as I am. It's hard for me to understand the human ways.
Kate McGahan
#59. A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.
Heathcote Williams
#60. When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.
Bill Nighy
#61. There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C.S. Lewis
#62. When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge
#63. When people depend on my life
they depend of my soul and heart.
Petra Hermans
August 19, 2016
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#64. I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.
Judd Apatow
#65. Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.
Damian Marley
#66. Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.
Ron Baratono
#67. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.
Assata Shakur
#68. You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.
Roxane Gay
#69. I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
Quincy Jones
#70. I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.
Margaret Cho
#71. When people you don't even know hate you, that's when you know you're the best.
Paris Hilton
#72. When people devote themselves to something
they always ruin it on the verge of success.
Finish with the same care you took in beginning
and you'll avoid ruining things.
Lao-Tzu
#73. I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.
Harold Brodkey
#74. I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.
Anna Kendrick
#75. There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.
Eula Biss
#76. When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
Jeannette Walls
#77. When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.
Shirley Hazzard
#78. As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager
#79. When it comes to fashion, I'm just inspired by anyone who has their own flair or piece on anything. I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don't do what's been done or being done. I don't think I have anyone in particular. Just anyone who's original really inspires me.
Blake Michael
#80. One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God?
Teresa Hampton
#81. It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.
Michael Jackson
#82. When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.
Sean Durkin
#83. it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then
Iain M. Banks
#84. Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.
Bill Kaulitz
#85. In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
Dan Shechtman
#86. I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.
Brian Schmidt
#88. Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
E. Lockhart
#89. Letter to God from 6 Year Old Boy
dear GOD,
pleze turn cigarets into dynomite sooooooooooooooooooooooooo
when people light it ther heds explods up to peces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your best frend
Kevin
Beryl Dov
#90. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present
Donna Augustine
#91. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves
~Gabe
Cecelia Ahern
#92. I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.
Lindsay Pearce
#93. I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".
Ronald Coase
#94. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.
Christine Caine
#95. When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
Dorothy Day
#96. When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.
David Ulevitch
#97. I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
Bette Midler
#98. I hate when people play politics with me; when I have never tried to play politics with anyone. I always try to play fair with everyone. But; karma is still treating me like a bitch. Sometimes I am lucky
Temitope Owosela
#99. When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.
Stephan Pastis
#100. When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Tony Robbins
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