People Quotes

"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history"

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Everybody has a heart. Except some people"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"A people that loves freedom will in the end be free"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"The first duty of a government is to give education to the people"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Children are not problems to be solved. They are people to be loved"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing"

John Dyer, Artist

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible"

Alexander Chase, Author

"I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people"

Grover Cleveland, President

"Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made"

Grover Cleveland, President

"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters"

Grover Cleveland, President

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