For The People Quotes

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

One way to know you are REALLY on track is when people begin to doubt or "hate on" what you are doing. It's a natural part of the process.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.