People Quotes
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?
I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.
I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.
I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.
If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.
I benefited from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me even when I didn't always believe in myself.
It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.
One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.
Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.
Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.
When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.
Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.
Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.
People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
