People Quotes

"A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death"

Socrates, Philosopher

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

George Orwell, Author

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves"

John Wayne, Actor

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others"

George Orwell, Author

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot"

George Orwell, Author

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise"

George Orwell, Author

"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings"

George Orwell, Author

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

George Orwell, Author

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

George Orwell, Author

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government"

George Washington, President

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live"

Socrates, Philosopher

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart"

Socrates, Philosopher

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome"

George Orwell, Author

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic"

Tina Turner, Musician

"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back"

Tina Turner, Musician

"People must help one another; it is nature's law"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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