With People Quotes

Some people are more nice than wise.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.