Quotes About People

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

There's a lot of people who call you by your name, but only one who makes it sound special.

The right people love you and they will prove it by supporting you, the wrong people don't care about you and they will prove it by hurting you.

I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

A relationship consists of two people, not three. So why are you still here? Leave me be!

...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I love everybody. Some I love to be around. Some I love to avoid. And others I love to punch in the face.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better . . . while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

Es war nicht Backstein und Beton, die aus diesem Gebäude ein Zuhause machten, es war das Netz der Menschen und dieses komische Wort, das die laute Gladys auf ein Stück Stoff gestickt hatte: GEMEINSINN.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

I think there are certain people who change the way time moves.

Honestly, the idea of wanting to spend time with people one did not love absolutely mystified her.