People Quotes

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

Tax is for the poor or the stupid people.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

Don't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness.

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.