Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danai Gurira

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Danai Gurira

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so

Danai Gurira

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

Dana Spiotta

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.

Dana Spiotta

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Dane Cook

I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

Dane Cook

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

Dane Cook

I want to be able to challenge myself. And do things that are away from what I usually do. Stand-up is safe for me. I can do stand-up in front of twenty-five thousand people, and I'm like, "I know how to do this. This is what I do." I want to be a little scared.

Dane Cook

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

Dane Cook

Even when I go to a salad bar, I need to feel like I'm one of the first people there.

Dane Cook

You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.

Dane Cook

I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

Dane Cook

It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

Dane Cook

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Damian Kulash

There’s no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don’t let others use it,

Dalia Mogahed

Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.

Daley Thompson

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Daley Thompson

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Daley Thompson

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

Daley Thompson

I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

Daley Thompson

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Dallas Willard

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Dallas Willard

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

Dallas Willard

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

Dallas Willard

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

Dallas Willard

Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.

Dallas Willard

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Dallas Willard

We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.

Cy Coleman

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cybill Shepherd

Some people say Im attractive. I say I agree.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

Curtis Sittenfeld

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Curtis Sittenfeld

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.