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People Quotes


"The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings."


"A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted."


"If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on."



"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter."


"There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people."


"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."


"What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents."


"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."


"The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected."


"When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats."


"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."


"As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous."



"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."


"We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity."


"The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge."


"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."



"The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things."


"When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?""


"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation."


"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."


"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying."


"In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them."


"Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin."


"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."


"Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference."


"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."


"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."


"I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am."


"I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people."


"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."



"I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap."


"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment."


"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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