People Quotes

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

I let people say and write what they want.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.