Top 100 The People Quotes
#1. One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.
Josh Mandel
#2. be careful with whom you spend time. My dad says, "If you want to fly with eagles, don't run with turkeys." You will acquire the characteristics of the people you spend time with.
Christopher V. Flett
#3. I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
Foster Friess
#4. When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
James Lee Burke
#5. If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
Roddy Doyle
#6. Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!
Jack Bauer
#7. Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
Veronica Roth
#8. Disappointments are worse when they are caused by the people who should be your role models.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#9. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.
Russ Ramsey
#10. Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?
Lacey Alexander
#11. I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
Mos Def
#12. Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Ralph Merkle
#13. What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.
Mike Pence
#14. The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
Malcolm X
#15. Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#16. "Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.
Andre Vltchek
#17. I can tell by the constant shift of his eyes that he is watching the people around us-striving to see only them and to forget himself.
Veronica Roth
#18. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.
Jeff Sessions
#19. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.
Roger Ebert
#20. We all have a sort of vague, glowing picture when we say that, something solemn, big and important. But actually all we know of it is the people we meet in our lifetime.
Ayn Rand
#21. Merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.
Charles R. Morris
#22. Love is not controlling your loved ones' behavior. Love knows that since the people you love share the same universal consciousness, they will access their truth in time.
Cloris Kylie
#23. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.
Megan Whalen Turner
#24. Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.
Common
#25. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#26. Dedication:
To anyone who has ever loved unconditionally. To all the people who have loved someone that did not deserve it. And finally, to every person who has followed their heart down the path less traveled.
Belle Aurora
#27. We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
Nan Hayworth
#28. American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
#29. Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
Timothy Keller
#30. Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
Josette Sheeran
#31. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.
Dan Lyons
#32. There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.
Susan Estrich
#33. Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves.
Stavro Nashi
#34. The people who got everything wrong are back on TV talking about the place they got all wrong? Cheney, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle. It's like Satan's VIP list for Hell.
Bill Maher
#35. As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.
Romeo LeBlanc
#36. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#37. But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.
Ali Khamenei
#38. We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
Robert Webb
#39. There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
Hugh Dancy
#40. Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Henry A. Kissinger
#41. The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
#42. New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.
Bill Maher
#43. DO take the initiative and introduce yourself to the people you don't know. DO say your first and last names: "Hello, I'm Heather Wells." This saves the other person from asking, "What's your last name?" DO be inclusive and greet the people you know, even if you saw them just hours earlier.
Dorothea Johnson
#44. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
Sharon Salzberg
#45. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him ... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez
#46. I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting the environment and public health and are making a difference. The great thing about working on important issues is all of the other people you meet doing the same thing.
Laurie David
#47. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.
Joe Kraus
#48. I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
Elaine Stritch
#49. Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?
Awdhesh Singh
#50. What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.
Victor Hugo
#51. You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
Walter Martin
#52. We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
#53. You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson
#54. The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#55. It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it.
Nora Sakavic
#56. I love Australia. First of all, everyone is so nice. The people are down to Earth, and they like having fun with you.
Gabriel Iglesias
#57. I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
Bob Balaban
#58. The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
Joseph J. Lhota
#59. What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.
Rush Limbaugh
#60. The horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
Keith Ablow
#61. I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.
Greg Graffin
#62. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
Katie Kacvinsky
#63. Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
Nikki Sixx
#64. Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special.
Daniel Nestor
#65. In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people ... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
Pope Pius VI
#66. You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.
Douglas Conant
#67. Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
Anthony Marra
#68. I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
Maria Bartiromo
#69. Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father - but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.
Mercedes Lackey
#70. The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.
Mark Mobius
#71. You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
Rick Santelli
#72. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#73. Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
Alan Garner
#74. You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
John Shelby Spong
#75. And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves ... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
John Boehner
#77. I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity.
Erwin McManus
#78. Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Juvenal
#79. With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community
Pope Benedict XVI
#80. Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.
Ken Robinson
#81. We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.
Dalai Lama
#82. I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#83. I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
Jim Webb
#84. The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .
John F. Kennedy
#85. Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
#86. Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
Helen Reddy
#87. The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Dalton Trumbo
#88. The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#89. The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#90. Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
John C. Maxwell
#91. I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
Liang Chow
#92. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.
Bart Yates
#93. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba
yes Cuba too.
Malcolm X
#94. And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?" asked K. "So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere, ...
Franz Kafka
#95. Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers ... they are obviously alcoholics.
Lewis Black
#96. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
Eric Ries
#97. The people around me haven't changed. The people who have been in my life since the beginning are still in my life now. I think that has a lot to do with my staying grounded and humble despite the success I've achieved.
Kevin Hart
#98. None of what's become of me was Seattle's fault. Well, it might be Seattle's fault. The people are pretty boring. But let's withhold final judgment until I start being more of an artist and less of a menace.
Maria Semple
#99. I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair
#100. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
