Top 100 People S Quotes
#1. You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.
Nikita Khrushchev
#2. Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people's faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?
Ezra Pound
#3. The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
#4. I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.
Roz Chast
#5. It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.
Linda M. Godwin
#6. Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.
Gabrielle Zevin
#7. I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#8. What affected people's health most in these studies wasn't the actual level of control that people had in their jobs, but the amount of control they perceived themselves as having.
Sheena Iyengar
#9. I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
John Frusciante
#10. Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.
Dean Winters
#11. All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.
Larry Page
#14. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
#15. We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.
Melody Beattie
#16. I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.
Meredith Brooks
#17. Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.
Barack Obama
#18. There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
Dweezil Zappa
#19. Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
Tobias Wolff
#21. There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
Natalie Portman
#22. Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.
Andrew Root
#23. People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#24. Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
Kevin Patterson
#25. Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
Will Smith
#26. 'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.
Simon McBurney
#27. A shared vision is not an idea ... it is rather, a force in people's hearts ... at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?
Peter Senge
#28. It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
Edgar Degas
#29. Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.
DJ Ashba
#31. To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won't get stolen, you'll have to jam it down people's throats instead.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
#32. If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.
David O. McKay
#33. You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.
John Legend
#34. I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
Ethan Hawke
#35. It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.
Jean Cocteau
#36. Because we fear other people's reactions and don't know how to respond, we allow them to violate our limits and boundaries.
Sue Patton Thoele
#37. I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else.
David Arnold
#38. I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.
Matt Bomer
#39. To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
Carol Moseley Braun
#40. People lie so that others will form beliefs that are not true. The more consequential the beliefs - that is, the more a person's well-being demands a correct understanding of the world or of other people's opinions - the more consequential the lie.
Sam Harris
#41. Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
Daley Thompson
#42. I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
Jorge Luis Borges
#43. I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
Mose Allison
#44. Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can't imitate people's aura.
Minzy
#45. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
Charlie Weis
#46. I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
Alexander McQueen
#48. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
Arundhati Roy
#49. As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
Athol Fugard
#50. This summer I'd been spending a lot of time on other people's deaths. Harley's. Lisette's. But somehow it had helped me feel alive. Because they weren't my deaths. The ones that were my own were too hard to face.
Ally Condie
#51. In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.
Kola Boof
#53. Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.
Letitia Baldrige
#54. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
Sheryl Sandberg
#55. To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
#56. Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Michael Azerrad
#58. Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.
Criss Jami
#59. People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
Art Alexakis
#60. You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.
John C. Maxwell
#61. Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
Rick Yune
#62. The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people have a place to look to other than our government! People have a place to look for guidance and authority that is much more enlightened ...
Brad Steiger
#63. People that sneeze really loud in public need to find a hobby or a better way to try to get people's attention
Robert J. Braathe
#64. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.
Hillary Clinton
#65. We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements.
James O'Dea
#66. Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.
George W. Bush
#67. I will remember, Your Grace, said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me.
George R R Martin
#68. I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.
Francois Mauriac
#69. Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
Andy Hargreaves
#70. I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.
Wentworth Miller
#71. I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.
Deepika Padukone
#72. I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
Mark Zuckerberg
#73. Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.
Vir Das
#74. I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.
Matt Barr
#75. Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
Vilfredo Pareto
#76. Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.
James Scott
#77. I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative.
Haywood Nelson
#78. Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
Brett Hoebel
#79. Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.
Jef Mallett
#80. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Stephen Covey
#81. Thinking about anger in positive terms is alien in most people's experiences. However, a healthy expression of anger is a component for building and maintaining successful relationships!
David W. Earle
#82. Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you
want to do - if you can.
Richard Ford
#83. I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.
Peter Hook
#84. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
Doug Stanhope
#85. Don't let people's stereotypes or stigmas or words - don't let that put you in a box. Don't let that ruin your day.
Lil B
#86. Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same ... Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#87. When you make music you have to listen to people's opinions and keep working on your music. A lot of people will try to get you down because they don't realize how much you love it or maybe they are just jealous ... Sure it will never be perfect, but never give up and work until you'll be satisfied!
Marilou
#88. I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.
Nicholson Baker
#89. People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.
Zicheng Hong
#90. Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
Amy Chua
#91. We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.
Christopher Titus
#92. You can almost hear people's b-holes tighten. A collective cartoon-mouse squeak of b-hole.
Tina Fey
#93. I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
Ray Bradbury
#94. I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.
Donald Tsang
#95. It often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are a lot ... it comes from people's laziness, that they sort themselves out by looks and can't find anything
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. She asked me when I had started feeling a need to grant people's wishes, and whether I felt a desperate need to please. She asked about my mother, and I told her that she could not judge me as she would judge mortals, for I was a djinn, powerful and wise, magical and mysterious.
Neil Gaiman
#98. I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.
Frederick Wiseman
#99. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
Paul Ryan
#100. I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
