People Quotes

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don't care what people say about me.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'