For The People Quotes

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

Art changes people people change the world.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

You've got to love your people more than your position.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.