The People Quotes

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.