For The People Quotes
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.
My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people
I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.
I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.
Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.
No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
It's not what the world gives you, but what you can give it. I'm lucky. I can give the world talent. I can explain it and show it to people. That's what I love doing. I just love it.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
