People Quotes
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Saul Bellow
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
Rumi
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A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
Daniel Wallace
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
Jimmy Carter
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
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I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
Dolly Parton
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I like certain people's work better than my own.
Ethan Canin
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Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.
David Titley
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the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
Humphrey Bogart
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You never know which people will affect your life.
Sue Grafton
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
Jeff Bezos
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.
Rainer Weiss
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As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the Barack Obama administration.
Nat Hentoff
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
Sarah Dessen
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
William Faulkner
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Sherman Alexie
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I'm just looking forward to doing these videos with AXE. Doing more directing, collaborating with them, finding ways to kind of like tap into temptation with their market and their audience and mine and find cool, creative ways to get the brand out to people. And I think they're doing a really, really good job. So we've got some cool stuff coming up.
Michael B. Jordan
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I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.
Rich Mullins
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I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
Lee Daniels
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
Carson McCullers
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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
Frederic Chopin
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
Thomas Sowell