People Quotes

"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere"

Sting, Musician

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96"

Lyn Nofziger

"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

"Our company has to be a company that enables its people"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should"

Sting, Musician

"I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with"

Sting, Musician

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that"

Lyn Nofziger

"Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives"

Lyn Nofziger

"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world"

George H. W. Bush, President

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them"

David Byrne, Musician

"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching"

David Byrne, Musician

"Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

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