People Quotes

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.