People Quotes

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.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

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.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.