Top 100 People Are Quotes
#1. It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.
Marjorie Hillis
#2. Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
Denzel Washington
#3. People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.
Dennis Rodman
#4. People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!
Gerry Harvey
#5. Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
Charles Colson
#6. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.
Kameron Hurley
#8. Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
Lee Iacocca
#9. Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.
Tana French
#10. People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
#11. Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#12. The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.
Charlie Puth
#13. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.
Peter Cundill
#14. The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.
LeCrae
#15. It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind,
Winston S. Churchill
#16. Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.
Amy Poehler
#17. Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself
Shahrukh Khan
#18. The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
Susanna Moodie
#20. Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.
Deyth Banger
#21. If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.
Jeff Dunham
#22. Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable ... I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.
Erik Naggum
#23. Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.
Johnny Weir
#24. Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.
Paul Blackthorne
#25. America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.
Jamaica Kincaid
#26. Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
Myles Munroe
#27. Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
Peter Jennings
#28. For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
Hilary Rosen
#29. People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.
Kathleen Battle
#30. As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
Chris Stapleton
#31. I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.
Dov Davidoff
#32. Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.
Isaac Asimov
#34. Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.
Benjamin Clementine
#35. We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#36. People are leaving the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
#37. What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
Philippe Petit
#38. People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.
Guy De Rothschild
#39. There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
George Eliot
#40. How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
John Green
#41. The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
#42. People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
Charlaine Harris
#43. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.
Jennifer Niven
#44. Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar ... They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.
Dustin Hoffman
#45. No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women ... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Bell Hooks
#46. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right?
Daniel H. Wilson
#47. Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
Eric Burdon
#48. I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.
Vincent Cassel
#49. One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.
Donald Trump
#50. The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
Caroline Kennedy
#51. ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.
Hilary Mantel
#52. It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices.
Russell Brand
#53. People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Douglas Coupland
#54. The three most important ways to lead people are: ... by example ... by example ... by example.
Albert Schweitzer
#55. Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.
Ed Buckner
#56. I'm different than most people ... when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line
David Goggins
#57. Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.
Lee Clow
#58. I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mahathir Mohamad
#59. People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
Eric Schmidt
#60. Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
Drew Carey
#61. I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.
Julianne Hough
#63. People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.
Laura Poitras
#64. I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.
Karl Pilkington
#65. The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
P. J. O'Rourke
#67. I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing.
Caroline Myss
#68. I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
Harland Williams
#69. People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. A movement only exists when people are inspired to move,
to do something, to make the cause their own.
Simon Sinek
#71. Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
Sam Mendes
#72. I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.
Corin Tucker
#73. The American people are frustrated.
Pam Bondi
#74. The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.
Alan Shepard
#75. We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.
John McCain
#76. I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.
Jim Crace
#77. It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive
Dustin Diamond
#78. It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
G.K. Chesterton
#79. Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.
Gracie Allen
#80. People are remarkably good at doing what they want to do.
Joe Little
#81. It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
Nicholas Sparks
#82. People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
Terry Pratchett
#83. Some people are good cooks and some people are good ... I don't see why you have to do all of that.
Frank Fairfield
#84. I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny.
Susan Egan
#85. To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
Malachy McCourt
#86. Religious people are so confident of having God by their side that they think they are superior to everyone else
Elif Shafak
#87. Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.
Elle Lothlorien
#88. Sometimes people are mean because they feel insecure about themselves.
E. Lockhart
#89. Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.
Ray Bradbury
#90. In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET
Tony Dovale
#91. There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
Patrick Ness
#92. I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.
Katori Hall
#93. Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.
Kenneth Copeland
#94. Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
James Murdoch
#95. Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.
Martin Schulz
#96. People are far more interested in what works than what's true.
Andy Stanley
#97. The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
Zig Ziglar
#98. The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.
Scott Aukerman
#99. I don't dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them.
Katja Millay
#100. Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.
Toby Young