People Quotes

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.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.