Quotes About People

#1. If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Stieglitz

#2. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

Deanna Lynn Sletten

#3. In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the "excuses" and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

Yvonne Pierre

#4. I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

Omar Sharif

#5. People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.

Juliana Hatfield

#6. Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Don Imus

#8. In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

Sy Montgomery

#9. Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

Nancy Kress

#10. I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

#12. People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

Barbara Demick

#13. All this reverential - I'm not a saint." Ma's voice is getting loud again. "I wish people would stop treating us like we're the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I've been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn't believe.

Emma Donoghue

#14. The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Brian Reynolds

#15. I'm not surprise to hear this from you. People love to express their thought and ideas. They preach everyone to believe and follow their seemingly good ideology and thought but they themselves don't practice their own preach." - Arluna

Rin Ahmad

#16. I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

Elena Ferrante

#17. I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace.

Jon Lee Anderson

#18. And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug people, to distract their
attention from the serious problems and
divert them with a Romeo-and-Juliet
story, one scripted, however, by a soap opera writer.

Andrea Camilleri

#19. My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

John Scott

#20. Hmmmm ... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

Grandmaster Flash

#21. This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

William Safire

#22. Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.

Henry Hazlitt

#23. That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.

Aaliyah

#24. For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

Zac Posen

#25. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Romola Garai

#26. I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

Anders Hejlsberg

#27. We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Ron Chernow

#28. Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like ... little person, or vertically challenged,or-"
"I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!

Rick Riordan

#29. The fundamental question in everything we do must be: Will this honor God? Does this display Jesus Christ? Does this make people see how awesome the LORD is? Failure to answer "Yes!" invites Ichabod. I have many, many wonderful

James MacDonald

#30. But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

#31. You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tori Amos

#32. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Milton Friedman

#33. Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

James Surowiecki

#34. There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

Ron White

#35. Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Dorothea Lange

#36. Piper, we don't kill people. Even when there are dead people lying around us.

Martha

#37. Salvation is revealed to people when we show and express to them the love of Jesus Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

#38. We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

Richard Branson

#39. I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

Dizzee Rascal

#40. It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again ... " Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.

Damon Lindelof

#41. I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Leora Tanenbaum

#42. But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Noel Coward

#43. No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.

Tarryn Fisher

#44. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

#45. You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

Bob Proctor

#46. Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value
seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does
it is a shared phant'sy.

Neal Stephenson

#47. Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

Clarence Darrow

#48. I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

James Cameron

#49. I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

Gayle Forman

#50. Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

Nicholas Sparks

#51. One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Yo-Yo Ma

#52. People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Andy Stanley

#53. For most people bedtime was early, although Cicero admitted to writing speeches or books and reading papers at night (there was a Latin word for it, lucubrare - to work by lamplight).

Anthony Everitt

#54. I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Michael D. Higgins

#55. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.

Marcel Proust

#56. Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

Fred Wilson

#57. A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

Arnold Palmer

#58. She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.
Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Cormac McCarthy

#59. People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Lucien Smith

#60. You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#61. He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

Ken Follett

#62. Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

Edmund Burke

#63. The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Mark Rothko

#64. IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid digital organization.

Pearl Zhu

#65. You know what I've seen? Is that people who have gone through unfair, horrific experiences, is that they have this will, and when they get support, a chance, they can not only survive, they can thrive.

Olivia

#66. It's different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#67. Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Mal Peet

#68. Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

Jo Walton

#69. But worries are for people who can't pull grown men apart with their bare hands.

Eliza Crewe

#70. I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

Doug Ose

#71. The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

Josh Hamilton

#72. Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Benjamin Franklin

#73. Mahlia just waited. She was good at that. When you were a castoff, it didn't do any good trying to talk to people, but sometimes, if you just kind of waited them out, people would get uncomfortable and feel like they had to do something.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#74. Average people focus on the storm;
extraordinary people look forward to the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Adele

#76. I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

David Suchet

#77. Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

Reese Witherspoon

#78. A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere ... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

Bobby Seale

#79. Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#80. There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

Jimmy Page

#81. In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Ryan Miller

#82. I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

Paul Ryan

#83. Value the people who value YOU.

Bill Withers

#84. Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

Marlo Thomas

#85. How you mean, 'doughnut hole'?" Ti-Jeanne had asked. "That's what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs," he'd answered.

Nalo Hopkinson

#86. We're both broken people looking for a safe place to land. Maybe this time we've actually found solid ground

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#87. The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Brian Eno

#88. I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive people trying to express the ineffable. I don't need to be a biblical literalist to love my God.

Thomm Quackenbush

#89. We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

Barack Obama

#90. I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Ludacris

#91. Thor." The goddess scoffed. "If you want someone who can navigate one hundred and seventy channels of HD content, go to Thor. If you want someone who can accurately send people through the Nine Worlds, he's not your guy.

Rick Riordan

#92. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

John Reed

#93. Cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

Jo Coudert

#94. This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.

Yehuda Levi

#95. People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

N. T. Wright

#96. For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

David Morse

#97. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Albert Einstein

#98. If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#99. Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

Dennis Prager

#100. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Alice Sebold