#people

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#ankle #around #find #neck #people

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue. ↗

— Willie Aames

#clue #know #people #think #you

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. ↗

— Willie Aames

#astray #broken #easy #led #people

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. ↗

— Willie Aames

#bible #claim #get #getting #god

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#aim #aimed #apartheid #believe #cause

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. ↗

— Abdallah II

#better #days #disappointed #eager #every

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#course #hurt #i #me #people

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.' ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#get #i #i think #lot #might