With People Quotes

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try to feed off it.

Of course people take something good and turn it negative.

So many people are out of their minds.

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.

It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

"I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

I've been very fortunate to work with people that I'm fans of.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.