People Quotes

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.'

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.