People Quotes

"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week"

"I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"There's people making babies to my music. That's nice"

Barry White, Musician

"People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh"

Herodotus, Historian

"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist"

Graham Nash, Musician

"There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful"

Will Arnett, Actor

"It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"There are some sick people in this world"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million"

Graham Nash, Musician

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

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