We The People Quotes

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.

My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

Tell the people not to cry. Tell them to be happy.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

God tests His people through hardship.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.