Top 100 People Not Quotes
#1. Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.
Bernie Sanders
#2. Give people not only your care, but also your heart.
Mother Teresa
#3. History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. There is the voice that everybody hears ... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#5. The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
Kenneth Burke
#6. I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.
Andrew Scott
#7. We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Narendra Modi
#8. Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.
George A. Romero
#9. Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#10. People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
Keri Russell
#11. Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo
#12. We must see people not as object but as beings, with souls and with bodies through which they express their souls.
Kate Wicker
#13. If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
Michael Bennet
#14. I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.
Jeff Garlin
#15. It's okay. I'm used to people not wanting me at their parties." I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. "No big
deal.
J. Lynn
#16. We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
Herb Brooks
#18. I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Matthew Shipp
#19. Tragically, from the Orthodox point of view, we only too often convert people not to this one church, the body of Christ, but to our own denomination, at the same time imparting to them the "poison of division" (Nissiotis 1968:198).
David J. Bosch
#20. There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.
Jeffrey Kluger
#21. What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Thomas Sowell
#22. The gospel of grace is glad tidings of great joy to all people, not condemning, miserable, hopeless pills we can't swallow.
Paul Silway
#23. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
Anthony Esolen
#24. Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.
Keith Ferrazzi
#25. I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
Ziggy Marley
#26. Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Earl Warren
#27. Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.
John Stahl-Wert
#28. I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.
Rivers Cuomo
#29. Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
Seneca The Younger
#30. There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#31. We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.
Michael Botticelli
#32. I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
Quentin Blake
#33. The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself
Daniel Keyes
#34. I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall
#35. Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves
Joan Rivers
#37. The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.
Kabir Sehgal
#38. Hinduism advises such people not to try to think of God as the supreme instance of abstractions like being or consciousness, and instead to think of God as the archetype of the noblest reality they encounter in the natural world.
Huston Smith
#39. Always look at the people, not at the mass. A face, not the crowd. Look at the world, not at the ground. Every little detail you see is a victory.
Vic James
#40. It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
Joyce Meyer
#41. We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.
Mick McCarthy
#42. And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh
not a trace of rage on behalf of black people, not a trace of rage on behalf of me.
Anne Lamott
#43. That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just bit blacks and whites and didn't bite Asians.
Walter Dean Myers
#44. Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.
Tim Hecker
#45. Thunder gods don't hide."
The Russian shrugged. "I am not like Thor. I have Russian depth of character. And I like to help people, not hurt them. Usually I help with vodka. You want some?
Kevin Hearne
#46. The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank
#47. You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
John Green
#48. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
Terry Pratchett
#49. I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
Steven Yeun
#50. Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Patrick Marber
#51. There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#52. Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
Jack Schwartz
#53. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Stokely Carmichael
#55. The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.
Leigh Hershkovich
#56. Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.
Roger Ebert
#57. Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.
Wendell Berry
#58. My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
Spencer Wells
#60. That may not be a majority position in my party, but that's down the road. You can't even begin that process until you prove to people - not just pass a law that says you're gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You're gonna have to do it and prove to people that it's working.
Marco Rubio
#61. Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
Kathryn Stockett
#62. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Oprah Winfrey
#63. All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.
William J. Clinton
#64. I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum
#65. Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.
Emil Cioran
#66. I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places ... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
Beth Revis
#67. And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Mother Teresa
#68. I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor
#69. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
Zhuge Liang
#70. If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.
Charles Wheelan
#71. That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.
Barack Obama
#72. I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
Thomas Dolby
#73. I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Agnes Martin
#74. Too many people not enough monkeys
Anonymous
#75. It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Cassandra Clare
#76. I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
Carol Moseley Braun
#77. That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant
the act of a tyrant.
Marcus Aurelius
#78. The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.
Steve Jobs
#79. Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat
#80. And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
Rainn Wilson
#81. I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
Al Franken
#82. Today, many people not only take the self for granted but struggle mightily to connect it to anything larger. In Lincoln's time, the idea of the self had the power - tinged with uncertainty, even with danger - of something emerging and ascending.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#83. So when thinking about what kind of company to build, there are two distinct questions to ask: What secrets is nature not telling you? What secrets are people not telling you?
Peter Thiel
#84. I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.
Liz Phair
#85. Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.
Amanda Lindhout
#86. I saw that Roy was not inclined to be amused. I was not annoyed, for I am quite used to people not being amused at my jokes. I often think that the purest type of the artist is the humorist who laughs alone at his own jests.
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.
Bernie Sanders
#88. It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.
Muso Soseki
#89. Mason groaned. "Clinton, you're so dumb it gives me a headache. You heard Cora. She said keep Damon from eating people, not feed people to him." "Who
T.S. Joyce
#90. For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.
George MacDonald
#91. Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.
Helen Fielding
#92. The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
Geoff Mulgan
#93. I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
Gray Davis
#94. I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
Lawrence Bossidy
#95. Nobody knows what goes on in other families, because families lie about themselves to other people. Not only to other people but to one another. And to themselves.
Elizabeth Berg
#96. I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud
#97. Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.
Rick Scott
#99. You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.
Rachel Caine
#100. I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
