With People Quotes

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

Dying people often become childish.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

You can't trust very many people.

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.

In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer.

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.

It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.