People Quotes

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

An educated people can be easily governed.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!