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People Quotes


"The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world."


"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."


"When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things."


"So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations."


"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."


"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."


"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."


"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules."


"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."


"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."


"I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are."


"Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices."


"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."


"You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people."


"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."


"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."


"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."


"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."


"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."


"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."


"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."


"If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation."


"You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation."


"How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering."


"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."


"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."


"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."


"When something is troubling me, people know about it."


"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."


"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."


"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs."


"I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources."
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