For The People Quotes

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.

Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.