For The People Quotes

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

People called me "Slim" and "Daddy Long Legs." My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

I like to see people doubt me.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

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

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

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

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.