With People Quotes

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

People generally despise where they flatter.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

Most people think they KNOW the answer. I am willing to ADMIT I don't even know the question.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

You can only lead if the people that you're leading want to be led.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.