Quotes and Sayings About People
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It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.
-- Abby Wambach -
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
-- Abdallah II -
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 -
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
-- Abdallah II -
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
-- Abdallah II -
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
-- Abdallah II -
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
-- Abdallah II -
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
-- Abdallah II -
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
-- Abdallah II -
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
-- Abdallah II -
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
-- Abdallah II -
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
-- Abdallah II -
We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
-- Abdallah II -
O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
-- Abdul Kalam -
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
-- Abdul Kalam -
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
-- Abdul Kalam -
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
-- Abdul Kalam -
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan -
People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan -
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan -
People have become educated, but have not become human.
-- Abdul Sattar Edhi -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak
