For The People Quotes

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

The Olympics are only once every four years so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.