We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving. – Joel Osteen
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It’s a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. – James Q. Wilson
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. – Julia Ward Howe
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. – John Henrik Clarke
I’m never interested in movies where you don’t care about the people you’re watching, and that’s my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider. – Joss Whedon
If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging. – John Niven
People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks. – John Kruk
I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds. – John C. Reilly
I’m Italian, but some people think I’m Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. – Joy Behar
Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get. – Jurgen Klopp
The liberal social experiment with our military continues. A same-sex marriage-like ceremony should not have occurred at Fort Polk, especially since the people of Louisiana have made it abundantly clear that our state does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions. – John Fleming
If people are going to give, they’re going to give. And it doesn’t matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it’s all according to your ability. – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don’t really know exactly what’s going to happen from moment to moment. That’s why you watch the entire thing. – Isaac Mizrahi
Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there. – John Aniston
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it’s quite likely you will develop heart disease. – Joel Fuhrman
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. – James Madison
September 11 was horrific, but I’ve been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it. – Jeffrey R. Immelt
You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don’t be afraid to say no. – Jane Seymour
Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people – and especially women – are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own. – Jeremy Scott
Not as many people watch ‘Doctor Who’ as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It’s a much larger culture, in the specific sense. – John Hodgman
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It’s very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases. – Gary Calamar
So few people vote these days, and I think it’s partly because they don’t feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help. – Jennifer Pahlka
I think there’s something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it’s regarding wealth, they’re obviously very guarded. – Jamie Johnson
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn’t in the spotlight, I should say. I’m in the spotlight, but not the truth. – Hope Solo
