The People Quotes
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.
Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people of the world.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you.
Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ‘em!
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.