People Quotes
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High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane.
Louis Sullivan
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Frank Norris
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Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
Bridget Fonda
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It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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Radicalisation thrives on economic insecurity and exclusion. To create stakeholders in a peaceful world, people need opportunities to fulfil their potential and build good lives. Helping them is a powerful message of respect.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.
Bill Hader
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Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.
Douglas Davis
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I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
Leila Janah
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The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
Valerie June
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I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
Jim Balsillie
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The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love 'X-Men.' They'll do it because of them - that's our little extra ace in the hole.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.
John Rhys-Davies
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Before I modeled, I never thought I was beautiful. Even right now, I don't think I'm beautiful. I think it's my personality that makes my beauty different and unique. If you look in the past, Chinese people have always considered things like big eyes, pointy nose, or big lips beautiful. I had the same thoughts as a child watching movies.
Liu Wen
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I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
Lesley Gore
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My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some list. I guess Jennifer Garner is on the top of the list for best hands and I'm fourth down. But that's for people who really like an NBA star's hands.
Eliza Coupe
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Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.
Haifaa al-Mansour
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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
Jeremy Clarkson
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It's such a tremendous honor to redefine what is possible and inspire people. I just want to do that as long as possible.
Victoria Arlen
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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
Jim Wallis
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Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.
Cory Gardner