People Quotes

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.