People Quotes

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing.

I meet with people all day long.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.