With People Quotes

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.

After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

A lot of people think that I am only in town when I'm doing the publicity circuit, but I actually come [Bread Street] regularly. I just don't publicise it.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.