People Quotes

• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Small

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Why
  • Age

• People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Money
  • City

• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Singing
  • Listening
  • Lyrics

• I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People

• I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.

  

  James Lankford
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Forget

• I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Career

• I like to sing the songs people love, like 'Impossible Dream.'

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Dream

• It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.

  

  Jann Klose
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

  

  Bryant Gumbel
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Trust

• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Time
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Good
  • Seductive

• What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Religious
  • Gay

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  

  Gary Fisher
  • Fighting
  • Break
  • Peaceful

• Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Wise
  • Said
  • Beast

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Think

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Cutting
  • Economy
  • Wages

• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Time
  • Ordinary
  • Sixties

• When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • Great
  • Together
  • Vision

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