In most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel because they really don't think it will come back.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts, it is a sword that kills.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are the more human you are.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

I have as much authority as the Pope I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended, yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless, this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly I believe if you vote you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.

Life is like a grapefruit. Well it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly, bodies but not the madness of people.

In the sky there is no distinction of east and west, people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Most Americans are very cool people.

Don't knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human, they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

People become attached to their burdens, sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common, except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Most people would rather get than give affection

The moment at which two people approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven't. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Go before the people with your example and be laborious in their affairs.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Fifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Wealth and rank are what people desire but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

She cherished her race. She cherished women. She cared for gay and straight people. She prayed nightly for Palestine and equally for Israel.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Only kings, presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

He's been doing the defensive part all year long. Sometimes the people want more. Tonight he gave them more.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Technology favors horrible people.

If I'm a star then the people made me a star.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.

The hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Unity is vital for all wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should be the unifying force.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confront them with annihilation and they will then survive, plunge them into a deadly situation and they will then live. When people fall into danger they are then able to strive for victory.

Property, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people all the time - that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

The people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Experience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.

If you lead the people with correctness who will dare not be correct?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.

A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving, or the class of people served.

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

People teach their dogs to sit, it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

People of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Earth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale skinny people who look half-dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them, either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Magic trick: to make people disappear ask them to fulfill their promises.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.

To write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less and so they don't hire.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

People want to listen to a message word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person is what attracts people.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Sometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood - but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

You see, most people think Great God will come from the sky, Take away everything and make everybody feel high, But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth.

Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

People who want the most approval get the least, and people who need approval the least get the most.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them, for good or ill.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I wish my name was Brian, because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things, but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.

In England, the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here, the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you, and a Heaven for your friends.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance, but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

When a man bleeds inwardly it is a dangerous thing for himself, but when he laughs inwardly it bodes no good to other people.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I personally would increase the taxable base above the present ninety thousand. I pay very very little in the way of social security taxes because I make a lot more than ninety thousand and the people in my office pay the full tax.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education, or of government, by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

History makes people wise.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me 'I love you'. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt'.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.

People are getting smarter nowadays, they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guide.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers, when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land, or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

No one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect considering their value on the personality market.

The most successful people I've worked with like the Rolling Stones - people of a different kind of legendary caliber - have such great warm energy.

If you're doing a biography you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

I feel bad about my outlook how I feel about people and society and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

I've seldom minded other people's opinions but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them um their opinions about me I mean.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Well I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

People may hear your words but they feel your attitude.

I was called a terrorist yesterday but when I came out of jail many people embraced me including my enemies and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa and ensured the total liberation of Africa constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally their heroes were good through and through their villains wholly bad.

Fear not the people may be deluded for a moment but cannot be corrupted.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past I think has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best train them and back them. When errors occur give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

We herd sheep we drive cattle we lead people. Lead me follow me or get out of my way.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election the people who count the votes do.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

People are born for different tasks but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment, inner peace.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere but they're just not comedians. In fact some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births, they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence, but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

In order that people may be happy in their work these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.