People Quotes

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

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.

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.