People Quotes

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.