With People Quotes

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

People say that [i'm a celebrity], but I've only had to sign autographs for "civ-libs" types. And I autograph court orders.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.