Standoffish People Quotes

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish. ~ Alan Watts

And the moral of this story, according to Johnnie Larch, was this: don't piss off people who work in airports. "Are you sure it's not something like 'The kind of behavior that works in a specialized environment, such as prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment'?" said Shadow, when Johnnie Larch told him the story. "No, listen to me, I'm telling you, man," said Johnnie Larch, "don't piss off those bitches in airports. ~ Neil Gaiman

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think. ~ Marc Jacobs

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us. ~ David Krumholtz

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time. ~ Alex Hammond

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you. ~ Adel Al-Jubeir

Above all, by depriving people of the ability to satisfy personal needs in a
personal manner, radical monopoly creates radical scarcity of personal
as opposed to institutional-service. ~ Ivan Illich

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. ~ Margaret Mead

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity. ~ Randy Pausch

People often learn more from getting an undeserved pass than they would from being punished. ~ Nic Stone

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people. ~ Carla Bruni

O Malalai of Maiwand, Rise once more to make Pashtuns understand the song of honor, Your poetic words turn worlds around, I beg you, rise again My father told the story of Malalai to anyone who came to our house. I loved hearing the story and the songs my father sang to me, and the way my name floated on the wind when people called it. ~ Malala Yousafzai

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare. ~ Aaron Patzer

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. ~ Giulio Andreotti

We are told to cover ourselves up, hide ourselves away, so that other people can have control over us, can make us follow their rules. It is a bastardization of the concept of morality, this rule of shame. ~ David Levithan

People will forget what you said, but no one will ever forget how you made them to feel ~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this. ~ Mac DeMarco

I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think." ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to. ~ William S. Burroughs

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs. ~ Ken Blanchard

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people. ~ Vivienne Westwood

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back. ~ Joel Osteen

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave. ~ Francine Pascal

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Rousseau's tormented and tortured nature made him look with eyes of hatred upon people like Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvétius in Paris, who seemed to him fastidious, sophisticated and artificial, incapable of understanding all those dark emotions, all those deep and torturing feelings which ravaged the heart of a true natural man torn from his native soil. ~ Isiah Berlin

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really ... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. ~ Serj Tankian

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. ~ Jacques Barzun

Do you know why people in this world wish for peace or no more discrimination?
That's because people aren't peaceful creatures by nature. They love to discriminate.
Relationships between humans began ...
... with people controlling others or being controlled. ~ Fuyumi Soryo

Homeless people bear God's image too. ~ Philip Yancey

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who
have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
our goals. ~ Brian Tracy

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. ~ Jerry Brown

It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

God is in people. Miracles and blessings happen through people ~ Sunday Adelaja

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn. ~ Gerald Vann

If the dominant ideology is to be liberalism - a doctrine of tolerance - then to what extent can liberalism tolerate anything other than itself?

Liberalism seems to be increasingly coercive. 'You must have such and such a curriculum...You must have certain views on alternative sexualities...You must have certain views about gender...etc etc' in an increasing set of boxes which one is expected to tick, which seems to sit ill with the basic premise of liberalism which is to open the horizon for people to think and behave as they will as long as they do not constitute a threat to public order. The current strange liberal inquisition in the schools: Thou Shalt Be A Liberal, is just an example of the paradox of this Late Liberal or Coercive Liberal Project. ~ Abdal Hakim Murad