People Quotes

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

~ Jim Brown

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

~ Paul Craig Roberts

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

~ Lydia Millet

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

~ John Irving

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

~ John Irving

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

~ Jeff Duncan

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

~ Nina Easton

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

~ Alton Brown

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

~ Darin Strauss

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

~ George Soros

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

~ Gary Ackerman

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

~ Clyde Tombaugh

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

~ John Buchanan Robinson

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

~ Faye Wattleton

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

~ Eamon De Valera

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

~ Mary Beth Whitehead

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

~ Peter Asher

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

~ Edwin Morgan

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

~ Charles Trevelyan

We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families. There are people that are in dangerous areas, putting their lives on the line to keep our country free, and I think that's something we should all celebrate every day.

~ Guy Fieri

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

~ Lewis Black

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

~ Bobby Moynihan

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

~ John Clayton

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

~ Troy Gentile

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

~ Les Brown

Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.

~ Payal Kadakia

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

~ Nadia Comaneci

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

~ Chuck D

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

~ Zig Ziglar

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.

~ Scott Eastwood

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.

~ Kellie Pickler

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

~ Louis C. K.

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

~ Mike Birbiglia

People like to be around those who give off positive energy.

~ Erin Heatherton

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

~ Nhat Hanh

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

~ Chuck Norris

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

~ Shepard Fairey

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

~ Olivia Wilde

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

~ Patti Smith