People Quotes

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.