With People Quotes

People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

People will support that which they help to create.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'