A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Society exists only as a mental concept, in the real world there are only individuals.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

But I believe in fair trade and I will tell you I have many many friends heading up corporations and people that do just business in China they say it's virtually impossible. It's very very hard to come into China. And yet we welcome them with open arms.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

In the final analysis the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions no longer asking why something happened but asking how we will respond what we intend to do now that it happened.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.

Honesty pays but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Curious things habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean I know that's hard for some people to believe but you know I just don't.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Having federal officials whether judges bureaucrats or congressmen impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people being able to stand things.

Nay number itself in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage, for as Virgil saith "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be

People have discovered that they can fool the devil, but they can't fool the neighbors.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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.

People who work together will win whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent informed computer enthusiasts by which I mean "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other...

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

It's funny how most people love the dead once you're dead your made for life.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy growing heavy for the vintage.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

It's not about charisma and personality it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

George is a nice guy no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Me I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.

The liberties of a people never were nor ever will be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

It's better to hang out with people better than you ... Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Things people say strike me as amusing and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The best people renounce all for one goal the eternal fame of mortals, but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want is power-and no one holds power forever.

A name is a label and as soon as there is a label the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing and instead of living by a theme of ideas people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find delegate authority and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt or hatred or lack of ability to connect with people fame will magnify it.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man, we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are who like to be told the worst.

People might not get all they work for in this world but they must certainly work for all they get.

Often unless there is a specific problem they have to a possible STD they do not bring it up ... The physicians often don't ask about sexual function or what risky behaviors people are doing because it takes extra time and doctors themselves are sometimes not comfortable with talking about sex with their patients.

It's great. It's bigger than the sport because we're looked up to by so many young people out there. It's great.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

People do not make wars, governments do.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I'll tell you one thing since I'm married single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia my journals and letters will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I mean honestly we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people men and women just want it to be over.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore and it was such a sort of circus of odd interesting people that loved acting.

Whatever good things people say of us they tell us nothing new.

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

You have to give people something to dream on.

That's what liberalism is all about is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

At some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

She was a sister-friend to me, we called each other 'children sisters.' She was a great wife, obviously, and a wonderful mother, and a great woman, a great American. When I think of great Americans, she's one of the people I think of.

But if you - if what - the reports are true what they're saying is is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care at the margins that's going to increase our costs we knew that.

The one thing people are the most liberal with is their advice.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Oh you weak beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently with love and hand your life back to you.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife? How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple?

Yeah I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But it's like anything that happened in the past between black and white I can't really speak on it because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Even though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people

When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

The last resort of kings the cannonball. The last resort of the people the paving stone.

Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

I want people to understand gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be which is fun and entertaining.

Your outlook upon life your estimate of yourself your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified shaped molded by your surroundings by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate and admired many of the people who have served there.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Number of people have said to me after hearing your thinking their mind becomes much more happier.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place side by side with men in the rooms where the fates of peoples where their children's and grandchildren's fates are decided.

And above all things never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

In matters of truth and justice there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience how you can gain knowledge being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

You can fool some of the people all the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator because where two people are writing the same book each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead whether people like it or not!

What's fascinating is people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution people are going to ask questions. It was OK because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that in terms of complexity make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are ipso facto those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I made so many films which were more important but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Most nations as well as people are impossible only in their youth, they become incorrigible as they grow older.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

There are some people who if they don't already know you can't tell 'em.

I'm not looking to exclude people I'm looking to include them.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Look 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I am Ecuadorian, but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny blue-eyed white girl.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy, today they peer beyond the seven seas bury themselves waist deep in tidings and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

The number the industry and the morality of the priesthood and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

It makes me very proud of him. I look at all these guys here like little brothers. And he is out there in practice and working hard. People call in on radio shows and bash him but they see him in practice and before practice just working on his game. His improvement tonight just didn't come out of nowhere.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies, probably because generally they are the same people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know, because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Peace People clamor I want Peace But they do not let go of I(ego) or Want(desire). I and Want deal with the outside world. Peace is inside pieces are outside.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.