For The People Quotes

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Twolegs are mousebrain

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.