For The People Quotes
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.
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.
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.
There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.