For The People Quotes

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.

I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

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

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.