For The People Quotes

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

People are only what we believe them to be.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's putting people in their place.

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures