People Quotes

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

To lead people walk behind them.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.