The People Quotes

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one God saluting one American flag.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.