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I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Winston Churchill

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it that's OK too. It's whatever suits you.

Clint Eastwood

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases they understand it better than the original inventor.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that though untrue it shows one to be of consequence enough in one way or other to induce people to lie.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners and everyone involved in my business but most importantly to the young people we influence I apologize.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I think what it really is is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse, it's my mind.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it really and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Bette Davis

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize things that I said yesterday with nobody paying too much attention I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women, and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.

If you live to be one hundred you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

In countries where innocent people are dying the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end punish himself even more.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past so we change how people are thinking feeling and behaving today.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

People do not wish to appear foolish, to avoid the appearance of foolishness they are willing to remain actually fools.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Angelina Jolie

People generally despise where they flatter

To the people I forgot you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

For centuries New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.

I was called really horrible profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Lady Gaga

I am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Taylor Swift

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety, is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

Andy Rooney

Now anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up you'll never see it.

Barack Obama

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

People abuse their own friends and family but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

Instead I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others the pie gets larger.

How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy no soul. But it changes every day.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

You should not indulge in criticizing other countries or people belonging to other nations.

Don't matter how much money you got there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

If the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Marilyn Manson

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people most of all my wife and children.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the Dolly the person. There's me the star. And then there's me the manager.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

You know at parties people always ask 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well I don't have an alibi!

Emo Philips

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Princess Diana

To be happy make other people happy.

W. Clement Stone

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to preserve against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Michelle Obama

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Donald Rumsfeld

I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board which is very popular with the people.

Kobe Bryant

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Marilyn Manson

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Albert Ellis

To supervise people you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1, and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

A lot of people don't like the road but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Bob Dylan

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians they're not all growing in their faith they're not all active but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Joel Osteen

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it because they have no imagination.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Hedy Lamarr

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Christina Aguilera

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Most people want security in this world not liberty.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas people behind me stop and I'm gone.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I say to people who care for people who are dying if you really love that person and want to help them be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Most people do not pray, they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise you will have the gift the style the sharpness the clarity and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said well 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more and we need to be better listeners?

Paul Ryan

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

George W. Bush

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously but not themselves those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell

There are two types of poor people those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor the others are rich people out of luck.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us, to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Michelle Obama

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

P. J. O'Rourke

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Vladimir Lenin

Once you start a working on something don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya

Everything in the world we want to do or get done we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are you aren't.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people, it's not jury duty.

The smarter the journalists are the better off society is. [For] to a degree people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher the better the student body.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers our sisters our children our cousins our friends our co-workers and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will I salute the young state and wish it well.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Forgiveness is Truth itself it is Righteousness it is the Veda. It is the Supreme virtue in this world. Hence all people should develop the quality of forgiveness.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

There are two distinctive classes of people today those who have personal computers and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Dave Barry

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Eric Hoffer

Also if you want to reach people theatre is not always the best way to do it.

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kobe Bryant

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

There are some people you know they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

There are many silly superstitions about lightning and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky anytime anywhere and kill you.

Dave Barry

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Edmund Burke

Next to doing the right thing the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

John D. Rockefeller

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Joseph Joubert

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Josh Billings

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.

Embodiments of Love! There is Love in everyone of you. Develop that Love. Share it with the people. You also experience with your fellow people. This love - this love is not one-way traffic. It is just two-way GIVE and TAKE. We don't need to go anywhere if you have Love.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

I hate it when people take the things I say and turn them into something sexual. Just because it's funny to them doesn't mean everyone is going to take it that way. And I don't.

Kurt Cobain

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them about our country and about the American people.

Donald Rumsfeld

People still think of me as a cartoonist but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract a check or an autograph.

Walt Disney

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Eminem

Develop interest in life as you see it, in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

In Paris when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

Ingrid Bergman

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

James Russell Lowell

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there or when something catastrophic happens to you that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eric Hoffer

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60 000-plus people all over the world 275 posts.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa, there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.

But if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore few people owned automobiles so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.

Isaac Asimov

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Albert Ellis

Great people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

George W. Bush

A well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained in arms is the best most natural defense of a free country.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My people do not come to me of their own accord, it is I who seek and bring them to me.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot

Show respect to all people but grovel to none.

People imagine that Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Throughout my career I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Eminem

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

Woodrow Wilson

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Brian Tracy

The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do how they ought to behave and what the values are they should be living for.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in they deal cards and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

People have to deal with their issues together, they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people, are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

There are not enough jails not enough police not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Today the reason why the human population is increasing is because of the attitude of the people.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people to travel and expand my financial capabilities to get ideas and learn about life to create a world apart from basketball.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W. Clement Stone

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Will Rogers

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things, I offend people.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Don't tell people how to do things tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I know people who have ridden with him. I can tell you he's one very competitive guy. Very competitive there's no talking. A few minutes of warm-up time a little chitchat then you go.

As equality increases so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Everybody knows how to raise children except the people who have them.

If God wants us to do a thing he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Samuel Butler

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

People usually think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions but generally act according to custom.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.

For more than four decades the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom exploited their wealth murdered opponents at home and abroad and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just over the years it continued to grow.

People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Tennessee Williams

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming 'You're fired!'

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?

I let the American people down.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

A man must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside and encounter such a day as this for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

The impulse to cruelty is in many people almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Aldous Huxley

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Liberals it has been said are generous with other peoples' money except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Praise from the common people is generally false and rather follows the vain that the viruous.

Few people think more than two or three times a year, I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

When I write stuff and I help cast it I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

To lead people walk behind them.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

Milton Friedman

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong powerful beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Pam Brown

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated the ignorant and the boorish.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Bertrand Russell

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

I enjoy watching reruns of Saturday Night Live and counting all the dead people

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

Choose people who lift you up.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November and that's what we intend to deliver.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

I don't like these cold precise perfect people who in order not to speak wrong never speak at all and in order not to do wrong never do anything.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and whilst abroad underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.

When a great many people are unable to find work unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Older people sit down and ask 'What is it?' but the boy asks 'What can I do with it?'.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased in favor of the weak of the despised.

Desmond Tutu

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Drew Barrymore

Lance always has been motivated by people who don't believe him or doubt him.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Bill Cosby

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it being weighed together with their sins.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me I'm afraid of widths.

I don't see myself being special, I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them to have answers.

Interestingly according to modern astronomers space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.

Clint Eastwood

I mean in the South African case many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community people who went to church on Sunday every Sunday.

Desmond Tutu

Hell is other people.

Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.

Jonathan Swift

An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Angelina Jolie

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

People say that money is not the key to happiness but I always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Prune - prune businesses products activities people. Do it annually.

Donald Rumsfeld

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

We all want to be famous people and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Some people want it to happen some wish it would happen others make it happen.

What we have found in this country and maybe we're more aware of it now is one problem that we've had even in the best of times and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates the homeless you might say by choice.

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