People Quotes

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second"

William James, Philosopher

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

William James, Philosopher

"Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

William James, Philosopher

"We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I love to hit people. I love to"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s"

William Blake, Poet

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in"

Ken Kesey, Author

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