With People Quotes

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.

I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!