People Quotes

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

The wealth of a country is its working people.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Why bad things happen to good people

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.

If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

I like people who push the envelope.

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

The people that are inclined to hate are also inclined to belosers. A loser could never congratulate a winner – it’s not in them

Hypebeasts want shoes just to say other people don't have them.

I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Public worship occurs when the people of God assemble for the express purpose of giving to the Lord the glory due His name and enjoying the joy of His promised special presence with His own people.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.