For The People Quotes

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

The voice of the people, the voice of God.

You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.

Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

People need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We've lost the sense of our own divinity.

Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.