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.
Mitt RomneyThere 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.
Nelson MandelaI 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 ChurchillWe have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI 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 EastwoodJapan'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.
Steve JobsCreativity 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.
Steve JobsThe 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.
Lord ByronMake 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 MarstonFor 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.
Tiger WoodsI 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.
Lady GagaI 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.
Tom StoppardA happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason CooleyEverybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette DavisThe 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.
Desmond TutuSarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor DostoevskyA lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren KierkegaardReading, 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 RousseauThe infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
Alice WalkerIf you live to be one hundred you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George BurnsI can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
Hillary ClintonIn countries where innocent people are dying the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson MandelaA 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.
Steve PrefontaineWe teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past so we change how people are thinking feeling and behaving today.
Albert EllisLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard ShawYou show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Hillary ClintonI don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike TysonConsidering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
W. Somerset MaughamPeople do not wish to appear foolish, to avoid the appearance of foolishness they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice WalkerI never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
Andy WarholPeople generally despise where they flatter
AristotleTo the people I forgot you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
EminemFor 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.
Hillary ClintonI 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?
Sai BabaI love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor SwiftIf 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. RooseveltExploiting 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.
Paul RyanThe only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy RooneyNo people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James Arthur BaldwinPeople abuse their own friends and family but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
Sai BabaHow people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.
Wayne DyerFew 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.
Albert EinsteinPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy no soul. But it changes every day.
Paul CezanneI 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.
Richard DawkinsYou should not indulge in criticizing other countries or people belonging to other nations.
Sai BabaVirtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
ConfuciusIf the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeThe 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 MansonPeople who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas SowellI am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people most of all my wife and children.
Tiger WoodsI'm almost like three people. There's me the Dolly the person. There's me the star. And then there's me the manager.
Dolly PartonWe 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.
John F. KennedyYou know at parties people always ask 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well I don't have an alibi!
Emo PhilipsSo much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George OrwellTo be happy make other people happy.
W. Clement StoneWhat 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?
Winston ChurchillI 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 DylanPublic servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
Donald RumsfeldI drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean NathanHe has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board which is very popular with the people.
Kobe BryantA 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 MansonPeople 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 EllisTo supervise people you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin DisraeliI believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill GatesI 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.
E. M. ForsterAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WellsI 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.
Taylor SwiftA 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.
Billy GrahamA lot of people don't like the road but it's as natural to me as breathing.
Bob DylanMost 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 RochefoucauldPeople 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 OsteenWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeI'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 LamarrThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliWhat people call impartiality may simply mean indifference and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMost people want security in this world not liberty.
H. L. MenckenIt's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch HedbergI hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas people behind me stop and I'm gone.
Steven WrightThere is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar WildeMy 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.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMost people do not pray, they only beg.
George Bernard ShawTake 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 RohnThe problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Lou HoltzPresident 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 RyanI 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.
Barack ObamaThere 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 BarryIn 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 BergmanNight 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 AsimovThe 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.
Stephen CoveyFor 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.
Barack ObamaPeople 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 CampbellWhat 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?
Mitt RomneyMovies 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.
Steve MartinOur 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.
Rush Limbaugh