People Quotes

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day"

Lee Grant, Actress

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country"

Lyn Nofziger

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?"

Gregory Peck, Actor

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

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