People Quotes

Best People sayings - browse and share beautiful high-quality picture quotes about People.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

May not the complaint that common people are above their station often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah no I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

I believe in God but not as one thing not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful then you start believing you're fabulous then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart a gentleness of the spirit.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still he was never a wit abashed but said 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Francis Bacon

That's what people respect the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

Most people including myself keep repeating the same mistakes.

It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.

Douglas Adams

I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.

When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers, that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture which grew out of a people enslaved.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe, we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

Well today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder I think at the Grammys.

Here sir the people govern, here they act by their immediate representatives.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is you got to give em something. Either your money your land your woman or your ass.

Alice Walker

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

[Cancer] is a big big problem. It's an old problem and people have sort of gotten used to it ... Let's make it a priority again. Let's put it out there. Let's fix the problem.

If the American people don't love me their descendants will.

I'm not a serious person and I don't like serious people.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

You do the work and you want people to see it, but um while I'm doing the work the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately I don't I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God, and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge or determine right.

Creeds ritual religion and different theologies are all derived from man

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

But let me perfectly clear because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250 000 a year you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Clint Eastwood

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season see it through. You don't have to stay forever but at least stay until you see it through.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark nobody's going to stop them.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road and when you see it don't sit looking at it - walk.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way among their mates, but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say 'Oh he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

It's a complete lie why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know don't judge a person do not pass judgement unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is do not judge them because it is a lie.

Most people do not really want freedom because freedom involves responsibility and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings as traitors... I mean it.

Margaret Thatcher

Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

There are two types of people in this world good and bad. The good sleep better but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

Do something wonderful people may imitate it.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning restless urge to write or paint simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

We reproach people for talking about themselves, but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

I never lecture not because I am shy or a bad speaker but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Fame is but the breath of people and that often unwholesome.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will, as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

The world is full of people who have never since childhood met an open doorway with an open mind.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

I mean I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

We do not judge the people we love.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But, you see, that's what people do.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love you'll never make it.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life like radioactive elements.

Great dad. Yeah he would ask me for money on birthdays and you know inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Free people remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

To understand the true quality of people you must look into their minds and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Fortunately we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way I think you know no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you they care about children and that's been good to see.

Michelle Obama

I have no enthusiasm to visit the houses of the people, nor have I any disinclination to do the same. I do not care for the brick and mortar structures in which you live, I care to visit and reside in your hearts.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

You get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

The mind can make substance and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think excuse me if you'll pardon me American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

We live in a society of victimization where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system if people want to kill themselves they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

I'm happy being myself which I've never been before. I always hid in other people or tried to find myself through the characters or live out their lives but I didn't have those things in mine.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation, a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

I have no methods, all I do is accept people as they are.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds ignore the evidence and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Richard Dawkins

The biggest mistake that leaders can make is to give people false hope that melts like snow.

Winston Churchill

When the people become involved in their government government becomes more accountable and our society is stronger more compassionate and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Gertrude Stein

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime perversion and insanity.

H. P. Lovecraft

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage once you add 30 000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation it's pretty intense.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular especially with the younger generation.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

There's a lot of people who try to ride my coattails but Wally isn't one of them.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists, but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous, I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program you have to reform it for the next generation.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness, I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

It's just hard to meet new people in my position.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits those who expound to the people gathering fame use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises they benefit by the scholarship but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Steve Jobs

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

When the people become good the world will become good.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

People think the free market is a philosophy they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale it is a measuring tape it's simply a measurement.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone it's like they didn't fade away at all.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

I think of my people day and night. I say their names over and over.

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time is commended.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate it's understandable that people are saying you know 'What have you done?'

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

You know if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam my three daughters here Nicole Jamie LeeAnn my mom who's right here too.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like what they're supposed to buy and what they're supposed to laugh at.

The secret to understanding me is I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know I've always tried to say here's how we get our economy growing here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people how you argue how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.

Besides the pastor there were about five people who had access to the safe ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large it's really let us down.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking "What's in it for me?"

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage and allowing them to live together with the protection of law it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble organize and debate openly.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise you still want them to like you.

Common sense in so far as it exists is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

Constancy... that small change of love which people exact so rigidly receive in such counterfeit coin and repay in baser metal.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors nor even in its newspapers or inventors but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want.

People even more than things have to be restored renewed revived reclaimed and redeemed, never throw out anyone.

What people say what people do and what they say they do are entirely different things.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about you don't know how we do our jobs you don't know what's important.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

When success comes people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

What I saw today was a collection of people who have obviously been through a devastating time but are not down. Their spirits are not down. It's a bounce-back kind of attitude and energy that I got from them. ... Their energy is just tremendous.

We think the Mac will sell zillions but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Simply put you believer that things or people make you unhappy but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Asia is rich in people rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

I'm not for gay marriage but I'm not for discriminating against people.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Hillary Clinton

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient then repent.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.

Leo Buscaglia

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint it is because we ourselves are dying.

A very populous city can rarely if ever be well governed

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts and sort of harvest them and inventory them and present them.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

You know my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now I understand why. If I do my job well I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip, to avoid this the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae recipes or other people's opinions.

One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives

James Allen

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice that they're better than other human beings.

James Arthur Baldwin

There's such cultural rot taking place such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values morality you name it. Standards have been relaxed and people are not being held to them. People's intentions if they're said to be good and honorable that's all that matters.

These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful we absolutely positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The fear of death often proves mortal and sets people on methods to save their Lives which infallibly destroy them.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work the rest willing to let them.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

Always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't come to yours.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid but most stupid people are conservatives.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet playing video games is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Bill Gates

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I will say again that I have never and would never harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Three years ago this week a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said look if I can't turn this economy around in three years I'll be looking at a one-term proposition and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

So in Europe they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Paul Ryan

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible with both an upside and a downside component. Too often people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads, very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart yet both actively working together.

All I want to do is be normal. But really it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I care about our young people and I wish them great success because they are our Hope for the Future and some day when my generation retires they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse it's because he's so human, and that is the secret of his popularity.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Barack Obama

Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

What are you going to do play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years >Read People Magazine your whole life...? Take a freakin' chance!

If you hear (evacuees) talk on television it seems that they have a feeling on top of the emotional devastation that they're on an island by themselves. As Americans we rally around our people. We're going (to Houston) to let them know that we care for them and will be there to support them.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people being always excited, women wine fame the table even ambition sate now and then but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.

Lord Byron

Look of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

Paul Ryan

The people that make this country work the people who pay on their mortgages the people getting up and going to work striving in this recession to not participate in it they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

For a people who are free and who mean to remain so a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson

Once conform once do what other people do because they do it and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness, dull callous and indifferent.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking you just can't shut them up.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more but those giving more.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.

I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level, it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.

Everyone knows what the Masters is even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

Ever more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

If you will practice being fictional for a while you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example, I don't read what's handed to me. People say 'Here here's your speech or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

During the 1960s I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Carroll O'Connor

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

It's not the work which kills people it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Mitt Romney

If people don't want to come out to the ball park nobody's gonna stop 'em.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Hillary Clinton

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler Yeats

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other and then in some practical way some daily way figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

It's been quite a roller coaster ride but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is no matter how chaotic no matter how much drama is around you you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Emo Philips

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I think people who create and write it actually does flow-just flows from into their head into their hand and they write it down. It's simple.

The manual for WordStar the most popular word-processing program is 400 pages thick. To write a novel you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals but their real function is social to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is goals that do not inspire them.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Page 6 of 8

Search