People Quotes

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"People living deeply have no fear of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic"

Chris Brown, Musician

"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change"

John Cleese, Actor

"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it"

John Cleese, Actor

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist"

Chris Brown, Musician

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

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