People Quotes

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.