People Quotes

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

I let people say and write what they want.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.