People Quotes

"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier"

Jessamyn West, Author

"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best"

Anatole France, Novelist

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Many people love in themselves what they hate in others"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

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