Top 100 People In Quotes
#1. I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.
Cindy Sherman
#2. I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.
Caroline Cairn
#3. And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same And they all come out all the same.
Pete Seeger
#4. Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
Harvey Pekar
#5. Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#6. Take care of God's creation. But above all, take care of people in need.
Pope Francis
#7. Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
Michael Haneke
#9. Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.
Diane Keaton
#10. I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
James Belushi
#11. Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.
Boris Fishman
#12. People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
Claire Danes
#13. You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino
#14. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is confusion.
Miyamoto Musashi
#15. You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
Charles Olson
#16. People in brightly lit places can't see into the dark.
Marie Rutkoski
#17. The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#18. I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
Harold H. Greene
#19. And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#20. Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell
#21. I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
Doris Day
#22. For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
Saint Augustine
#23. Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie
#24. History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.
George Carlin
#25. I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.
Nick Kroll
#26. I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
Charles Bukowski
#27. Since Sept. 11, 2001, 48 people in the United States have been killed by non-Muslim extremists, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to the research center New America.
Anonymous
#28. It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.
Christina Rickardsson
#29. A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
Theodore Kaczynski
#30. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.
Jane Fonda
#31. A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.
Greta Van Susteren
#32. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
Andre Maurois
#33. What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love?
Donald Miller
#34. 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
#35. There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.
Don Van Vliet
#36. Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
Oscar Wilde
#37. The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
Chris Christie
#38. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author
George Washington
#39. Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.
Paul Pearsall
#40. Some mechanism ought to be devised for shaking elderly people in a healthful way, and in many directions.
Francis Galton
#41. In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.
John Burnham Schwartz
#42. Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
Judy Woodruff
#44. Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
Harry J. Anslinger
#46. People in New York love having roof parties.
Todd Barry
#48. ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
Billy Connolly
#49. People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.
Jimmy Cliff
#50. Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#51. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.
Natalie Portman
#52. I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
Alicia Keys
#53. I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Dave Barry
#54. What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha Graham
#55. Songs remain. They last ... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
Neil Gaiman
#56. I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.
Corin Tucker
#57. The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change ... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.
Jason David Frank
#58. If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.
Carl Hart
#59. By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.
Mike Pence
#60. There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.
Elaine Pagels
#61. Representatives of the churches should help guide people in resolving their crisis
Sunday Adelaja
#62. Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world.
Paul Auster
#63. Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.
Kofi Annan
#64. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...
Damien Hirst
#65. I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars Von Trier
#66. Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you have obligations of "kindness," of politeness.
Laure
#67. If you were an animal, what kind would it be?"
"A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.
Aline Templeton
#68. The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.
George W. Bush
#69. The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.
Charles Kimball
#71. Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.
Jef Mallett
#73. You see, dear - I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.
Tony Hendra
#74. Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.
Mike Yaconelli
#75. We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.
Charles T. Munger
#76. The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.
Henry Rollins
#77. The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets ... these are the great unknowns. They will be debated as long as their is life. I think there's an inherent interest from people in what that stuff is.
James Roday
#78. We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE
Ryan North
#79. I think after coming off of 'American Idol' ... people kind of expect you to just be awesome all the time, and we're still learning. I had a lot of stage experience, but it was in a 200-seat theater, you know - it wasn't thousands of people in front of me.
Carrie Underwood
#80. Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
George Galloway
#81. Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.
Barbara Kingsolver
#82. I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.
Robert Redford
#83. I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
Forest Whitaker
#84. Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#85. Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.
A. Ashley Straker
#86. Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
Alan Greenspan
#87. [representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,
Karl Marx
#89. Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.
Joyce Meyer
#90. When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift
#91. I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace
#92. The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.
Bell Hooks
#93. If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.
Jenny Hval
#94. I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.
Jerry Hall
#95. There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
Calvin Klein
#96. There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.
Susan Boyle
#97. People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.
Liu Wen
#98. The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
Oscar Wilde
#99. I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed.
"Why?"
"Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.
Lisa Lutz
#100. There are different kinds of people in the world.
Cheryl James
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