People Quotes

• People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • People
  • War
  • Read

• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Together
  • Service
  • Intelligent

• I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Trust
  • Risk
  • Boyfriend

• It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

  

  David Wessel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Enough

• I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Desire
  • Wood

• If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People

• Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Wonderful

• I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Violent Campaign

• No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Socialism

• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  

  Max Brooks
  • Financial
  • Scary
  • Bird

• A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Distance

• You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Up

• The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Rick Riordan
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Anything

• People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Superman

• Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Bright
  • Competent

• Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.

  

  Woody Paige
  • Character
  • Party
  • Television

• Maya Angelou said: “You remember people not by what they do, but by how they make you feel.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Remember
  • Feel
  • Make

• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People

• We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Practice
  • Attitude

• Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Family
  • Hurt

• How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Hate
  • Cheated

• Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People

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