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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.

Mitch Hedberg

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.

Douglas Adams

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal

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.

Herman Hesse

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

Herman Hesse

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

Kahlil Gibran

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Muhammad Ali

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.

Joel Osteen

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Mark Twain

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.

John W. Gardner

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.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Elbert Hubbard

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.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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.

Alice Walker

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Kahlil Gibran

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'.

Maya Angelou

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.

Helen Keller

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

Andre Gide

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.

Meister Eckhart

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

Will Rogers

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.

Lord Byron

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.

Dave Barry

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.

Plato

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

Pam Brown

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.

Michael Jordan

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!

Saint Teresa of Avila

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.

Alice Walker

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.

Andrew Jackson

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.

Charles R. Swindoll

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.

William Shakespeare

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.

Steve Martin

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.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Richard Dawkins

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.

You have to forget about what other people say when you're supposed to die or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think 'Why don't you just call?'

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Bill Cosby

Nothing brings people together more then mutual hatred.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings

Y'know you can't please all the people all the time... and last night all those people were at my show.

Mitch Hedberg

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe, I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty, it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others or anything other than their own welfare.

The more people smoke herb the more Babylon fall.

Bob Marley

The planter the farmer the mechanic and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya, we have not seen a single U.S. casualty, there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

Barack Obama

You know the funny thing I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

No matter the nationality no matter the religion no matter the ethnic background America brings out the best in people.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Out of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors hospitals and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors hospitals medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

I don't see myself as beautiful because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny as if that's supposed to make me happy.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Let me tell you the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties donations and benefits.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser a little bit older than me where before all my boyfriends were younger.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty not coddle the world precipitating no-win wars while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

We are on a journey and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people and now they are seeing me as an older young man.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB like cancer is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Then when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative or creative in their own way what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in the people they will bring in who they might appoint to the Supreme Court and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Colin Powell

There are horrible people who instead of solving a problem tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Well you know a lot of people look at the negative things the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

One leader one people signifies one master and millions of slaves.

My message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Abdul Kalam

How unbearable at times are people who are happy people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

A noble person attracts noble people and knows how to hold on to them.

Everybody's going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don't like. There's enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster that we are thinking faster too.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. (This is also true of religion although you will not find me saying so in print.)

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

People ask for criticism but they only want praise.

I have had a wonderful life. I have never regretted what I did. I regret things I didn't do. All my life I've done things at a moment's notice. Those are the things I remember.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years always there. In future also.

We had a great run. Three rings. I think people should leave it the hell alone and move on. ... I understand it's interesting but we also have an interesting game. The game itself tomorrow is interesting.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

However distant my people may be I draw them to me just as we pull a bird to us with a string tied to its foot I love devotion.

A man only learns in two ways one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.

I knew what my job was, it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife his family his friends his colleagues in the Congress lifetime members of his own political party the American people and the world.

Well I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly if I wanted to I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Young people need models not critics.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing, between 5 it's fantastic.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

People expect me to cry but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say 'Oh by the way we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there ' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

Whatever you do in life surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy not even mine.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

You will launch many projects but have time to finish only a few. So think plan develop launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

In nearly every religion I am aware of there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Part of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk stoned people to actually wake up and think you're doing something.

People want to tear me down they were going to knife me anyway.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

So when these people sell out even though they get fabulously rich they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Steve Jobs

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented didn't they? People feared coal they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance and ignorance leads to fear. But with time people will come to accept their silicon masters.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

People make jokes about my bosoms why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine then let them.

Propaganda does not deceive people, it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for And on their knees apply for Dispute contend and lie for And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

It's not surprising then they get bitter they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack Obama

Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood where the people have no dread of anybody have no sense of shame no intelligence or a charitable disposition.

People who know me well call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Colin Powell

To show you how weird he is I went to his house in Hailey and found notes all around. Notes on how to kill people.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair they'll be divorced very soon because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff and if it's commercially successful that's a good sign that it's being heard.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known though far more important theoretically is that complexes can have us.

To an ordinary human being love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I don't know why I do it. You know dresses and wear lipstick. Gives me some sort of comfort. Some kind of satisfaction. And people call me a queer for it. Since I was eleven. But that's alright. I'm not so new to ridicule. Out of all things I hate rape and perversion. Rape the action perversion the words. Maybe some people just don't have a heart.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

All the president is is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

I repeat... that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I am for people. I can't help it.

When the PC was launched people knew it was important.

In those days most people read newspapers whereas today most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor of course is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

All the United States it is a society that is split like to the bottom that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water and tears like mist, but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it but I foresee it.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

People who never get carried away should be.

Most people would sooner die than think, in fact they do so.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals and be where they are for very different diverse reasons again seems to escape some people.

People want to feel hopeful.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right, then have it your way."

C. S. Lewis

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

I never like being touched ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford Hedy Lamarr Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door.

Ingrid Bergman

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Some people are at the top of the ladder some are in the middle still more are at the bottom and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

If we do discover a complete theory it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all philosophers scientists and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Stephen Hawking

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads and the boss drives.

To me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I've never had a divorce but I've seen so many of my friends my sister my family go through that stuff so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow so I'm able to kind of express it or their joy.

Dolly Parton

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are as it were laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Take away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.

Eric Hoffer

Young people soon give and forget insults but old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

George Washington

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another, people are friends in spots.

George Santayana
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