For The People Quotes

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

I think people can believe in anything.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.