People Quotes

"I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh"

John Cleese, Actor

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"Two people shorten the road"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"My main goal as an artist is to make people happy and give them an escape from everyday life through my music"

Kygo, Musician

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends"

Homer, Poet

"Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I don't like the idea of famous people"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons"

Tracey Emin, Artist

"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

"I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"A government is for the benefit of all the people"

William Howard Taft, President

"Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people"

Richard Armour, Poet

"I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred"

Natalie Portman, Actress

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