Top 100 People People Quotes
#1. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.
Lawrence Samuels
#2. Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Idries Shah
#3. And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
"That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that ...
Eddie Izzard
#4. Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
William Hague
#5. Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#6. Short people, tall people, people with glasses, the bottom line is son, I'll whoop all their asses
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#7. They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.
Eddie Izzard
#8. In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.
Jaron Lanier
#9. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
Paul Craig Roberts
#10. Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.
Homer Hickam
#11. I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren't special. People who don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.
Charlie Sheen
#12. I have always felt loneliest in the presence of other people. People I can't connect with. People I feel unseen by. People who make me feel insincere or uncomfortable. For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone.
Kate Christensen
#13. The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness.
Bell Hooks
#14. Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
Mary Roach
#15. Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.
Frederick Lenz
#16. A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.
Warren Mundine
#17. My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.
Nathan Lowell
#18. There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
Fred Armisen
#20. People seek to put you in an off-balance situation so they can get to you. Psychic people, people who meditate, are more susceptible; they are more open and sensitive. It is easier to jam them.
Frederick Lenz
#21. It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
Don Cheadle
#22. No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.
Chelsea Cain
#23. But he hated to see his people people unhappy
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
Robin McKinley
#24. Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
Augusten Burroughs
#25. Borders do not make a people. People make borders.
Jack Donovan
#26. Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.
Leymah Gbowee
#27. We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much more from failures and those who hate us, (we learn how to avoid the mistakes they made.)
Auliq Ice
#28. The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.
Method Man
#30. Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.
Joan Lowery Nixon
#31. 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.
Mark Twain
#32. My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.
Nathan Lowell
#33. There will be no guilt, no repentance, because these things never change people. People remain the same; they just go on changing their outer garb, their form. Substantially, nothing changes through guilt, through fear,
Osho
#34. As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
Barney Frank
#35. I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.
Paul Fleischman
#36. Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.
Arvind Kejriwal
#37. I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
Donna Shalala
#38. Twitter is the people's tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
Ai Weiwei
#40. I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
Philip K. Dick
#41. I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself [so] I love to see people happy.
Tom Hardy
#42. We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.
Melanie Chisholm
#43. Just seeing other people, people getting on with their normal lives, is such a hard thing after you've lost someone so close to you.
Jennifer Shaw Wolf
#44. Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
Bernard Baruch
#45. Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
Matt Taibbi
#47. Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves.
Hilary Thompson
#49. If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.
Jacqueline Bisset
#50. I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.
Arthur Bradford
#51. I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
Andrew Mason
#52. I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
David Lindsay-Abaire
#53. With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
John C. Maxwell
#54. People who are in pain hurts other people, people who are happy makes other people happy, they don't mistreat other people. When you think of it that way it makes it easier to forgive and have a little bit more compassion towards difficult people.
Jeanette Coron
#55. Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.
William Gaddis
#56. When you've got big sky, big places and less people, people act differently and treat each other differently. It's tangible. It's not just a concept. I grew up in the country and then moved to the city, and there is a tangible difference.
Robert Taylor
#57. Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
#58. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.
Clare Vanderpool
#59. I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
Takeru Kobayashi
#60. Good people make bad choices every day. Sometimes those choices hurt people, people they love. We can choose to stay angry and remain imprisoned, or we can forgive and let go. Once again, it's a choice.
J.L. Brooks
#61. Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Harrison Ford
#62. My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Pauly Shore
#63. Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#64. There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
Damien Chazelle
#66. Brute force never changes people. People need to change themselves.
Jeff Stone
#67. Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#68. A new nation needs new people - people who take an active civil position and social responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
#69. I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
Schoolboy Q
#70. As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.
Gyles Brandreth
#71. Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.
Grant Cardone
#72. Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Barry B. Longyear
#73. I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.
Pete Seeger
#74. I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
David Lee Roth
#75. Once you take care of people, people respect you.
George Weah
#76. There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Bryant H. McGill
#77. You can get anything you want if you're nice to people. People like to do things for people, it's so easy to be kind.
Kate Moretti
#78. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.
Craig Johnson
#79. I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...
Jon Chopan
#80. All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
Diego Luna
#81. This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#82. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.
Lindsey Graham
#83. Bears need people. People need bears.
Pam Brown
#84. One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.
Terry Kay
#85. All of the young people - the artsy people, people who get overlooked because they're weird or they don't have hype around them - need to get some shine.
ASAP Rocky
#86. For books are people... people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
E B White.
Nigel Jay Cooper
#87. Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
Damian Lewis
#88. I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".
Demetri Martin
#89. I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti ... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
Kirk Douglas
#90. To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished.
Natsuki Takaya
#91. When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.
Parul Sehgal
#92. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.
Stephen Jay Gould
#93. Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
Eric Gill
#94. He liked familiar things, things that had been worn in by good people, people he could trust.
Jan Karon
#95. Guns don't kill people. People kill people." "But guns make it so much easier.
Jonathan L. Howard
#96. Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters.
Deyth Banger
#97. Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
#98. I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'
Michael Moore
#99. I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."
Kanye West
#100. You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.
Scott Adams
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