People Quotes
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Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell
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I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
David M. Kelley
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In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
Dean Koontz
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People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
Jose Gonzalez
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In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'
Elise Andrew
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.
Clemantine Wamariya
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All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.
Arthur Bryant
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People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
Andrew Yan
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If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
will.i.am
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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
Ben Bernanke
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I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
Lynn Johnston
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Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
John Kendrew
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As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.
Bing Gordon
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People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
Charlie Munger
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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
David Boies
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When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
J. B. Bickerstaff
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Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
Gabe Newell
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.
Darrell Issa
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We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to titillate.
Amanda Bennett
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
Bill Gates
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
Ariel Pink
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When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.
Charisma Carpenter
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Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.
William A. Rusher