People Quotes

"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid"

"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"It's very important to vote. People died for this right"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people"

Grover Cleveland, President

"I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid"

Grover Cleveland, President

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor"

Grover Cleveland, President

"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion"

Alexander Chase, Author

"In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves"

Grover Cleveland, President

"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked"

Paul Newman, Actor

"I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall"

John Dyer, Artist

"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

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