The People Quotes

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.