Top 100 People Can Quotes
#1. The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
Bill Gates
#2. What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.
Laurieann Gibson
#3. If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
Natsuo Kirino
#4. Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
Joseph Haydn
#5. It's better to be hurt than to hurt others. Nice people can be happy with just that.
Sui Ishida
#6. Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20
Philip G. Zimbardo
#7. The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.
Nelson Mandela
#8. I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#9. People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a gift
because it represents a unique form of human freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
#10. The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
Chuck Todd
#11. I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.
Diane Mott Davidson
#12. Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.
Judy Croome
#13. I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.
Robert Benchley
#14. I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
Nellie McKay
#15. That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.
I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.
Tom Spanbauer
#16. French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#17. Decades can pass,
You can move countries,
Wars can be fought,
People can die,
People can change,
But the stars stay the same.
They stay constant,
They are really the only reliable things in life
NorthByNorth
#18. Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
Stephen King
#19. I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#20. If people can be convinced to pick up dog sh*t, who knows what social change is possible?
Franke James
#21. Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.
John Kricfalusi
#22. I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.
Ned Vizzini
#23. Gay People can't do this. Women shouldn't be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you're attacking my rights.
Remi Kanazi
#24. I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
Gabriel Iglesias
#25. Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
Curtis Armstrong
#26. Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.
Sara Sheridan
#27. When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Edward Albee
#28. I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn Monroe
#29. Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.
Kim Kardashian
#30. You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
Tom Ford
#31. I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so.
Chaz Bundick
#32. It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
Stan Brakhage
#33. One day, when people can live together in peace and harmony in the world; only then, we will call this day, the one day, of the days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#34. The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.
G.H. Hardy
#35. I don't know how people can easily remain Christian if they get no fellowship. They may be able to do it intellectually, but part of the body of man is composed of spirit and parts of soul and of flesh.
Larry Norman
#36. Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
#37. You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.
Emery Lord
#38. People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?
Tori Amos
#39. So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?"
"I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out.
Jodi Picoult
#40. When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
John Bradley-West
#41. If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.
Lindsey Graham
#42. Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.
Andrew Shue
#43. I think being a singer-songwriter ... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.
Gabrielle Aplin
#44. I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
Grace Slick
#45. I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.
Jane Curtin
#46. Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can't be applied to wounds like gauze.
Christie Yant
#47. In London, people can be so ... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
Carey Mulligan
#48. The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
Al D'Amato
#49. People can't talk about you behind your back if you are constantly in their faces.
J.D. Horn
#50. I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.
Mohammed Dewji
#51. Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently..
Justin Bieber
#52. I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'
Maya Tiwari
#53. Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?
Tom Cruise
#54. The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
Vanessa Mae
#55. People are the least creative when fighting the clock ... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.
Teresa Amabile
#56. Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being. Till death do you part.
David DiBenedetto
#57. I'll have to wake up and realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life.
Kathryn Perez
#58. The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
Jasper Fforde
#59. Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
Helen Hollick
#60. You know that bad people can make great art, don't you?'Said Annie.
'Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I admire the most are assholes.'
'Dickens wasn't nice to his wife.'
'Dickens didn't make a memoir called I'm Nice to My Wife.
Nick Hornby
#61. Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake
you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher
#62. It's ironic that a hundred people can talk to you, and it really does nothing besides piss you the hell off. But then one person, one person, can fucking make the difference.
Stevie J. Cole
#63. Think before you speak. Don't be an asshole. Show kindness when it's warranted and walk away when it costs you more than you're willing to give. Don't be an ATM that people can take from but never deposit into. Be a depositor. And always, always give your best only to those that deserve it.
Amber L. Johnson
#64. Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
#65. I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
M. Scott Peck
#66. Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
Izabel Goulart
#67. I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
David Ortiz
#68. A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#69. <"To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on
whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ... > November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW
Diana Vreeland
#70. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
T.H. White
#71. The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Stephen Covey
#72. It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.
Brad Templeton
#73. People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom
Koji Suzuki
#74. Sentimental, Arjuro? You of all people."
"Me of all people can be as sentimental as he pleases.
Melina Marchetta
#75. Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
Steve Wynn
#76. There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.
Max Anders
#77. Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
R. B. Kitaj
#78. There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
Jorge Garcia
#79. Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#80. When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good," she said. "They love each other because it's easy. Or because they're used to it. Or because they've given up. Or because they're scared. People can be a Nix for each other.
Nathan Hill
#82. My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.
Alvin Ailey
#83. Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver
#84. I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.
Nikki Reed
#85. Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
Robert Breault
#86. or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." He did not mean, of course, that religion turns all good people bad, but merely some of them,
Jerry A. Coyne
#87. The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.
Dan B. Allender
#88. When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
Win Butler
#89. Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
John Fuller
#90. As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That's all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#91. Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
Sharon Olds
#92. All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die ... Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.
Isaac Asimov
#93. Other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.
David Foster Wallace
#94. It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.
Thomas Sowell
#95. Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.
Patti Stanger
#96. The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
Wilbert Rideau
#97. It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#98. Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
Ray J
#99. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.
M.J. Ryan
#100. Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.
Max DePree
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