People Quotes

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.