#people

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#cannot #discharge #down #down the road #find

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#come #feel #good #know #like

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro. ↗

— Jeff Malone

#excuse #get #here #need #nobody

The only normal people are people you don't know very well." Diesel "That's a quote from a famous person," I told him. Lizzy Tucker ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#business

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. ↗

— Aimee Friedman

#summer #vacation #change

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#couple #exciting #filled #get #hours

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Meade

#committed #group #people #small #thought

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#paul-david-tripp #people #principles #redeemer #redemption

But it wasn't till he'd been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the walk, having a tiny cup of Paris-tasting, Paris-smelling coffee, watching traffic stream by, pleased as always with the countless people on bikes expertly threading their way between and around the cars and buses and trucks. Then a traffic light changed, the stream stopped and waited, and a man on a bike, one foot on the pavement, lifted his arm and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. And he turned real. In that instant he was no longer a quaint part of a charming background; he turned into a real man, tired from pumping that bike, and for the first time it occurred to my friend that there was a reason so many people picturesquely rode bikes through the heavy traffic, and the reason was to save bus fare and because they couldn't afford cars. After that, for the few days that were left to him there, my friend continued to enjoy Paris. But now it was no longer an immense travel poster but a real city, because now so were its people. ↗

— Jack Finney

#people #reality #travel #change

This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white man's only way into it). The emergence of the white player meant that Afro-American culture had already become the expression of a particular kind of American experience, and what is most important, that this experience was available intellectually, that it could be learned. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#art