Quotes About People

if people are resistant to education and cling to their varying whims, they are likely to swarm around a charismatic figure and thereby risk letting democracy mutate into tyranny.

This happens...people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert...

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Princess Joan liked watching The People. Indeed, she liked The People, provided they gave her the respect she was owed.

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Allà dins hi havia viscut gent. De la vanitat, de l'odi, de les miques d'amor, en quedava la pols i un trist espectacle d'esplendor i d'oblit.

Back one hundred generations ago there was no people but Gypsies. Everything walked and talked. Flowers visited each other, so did rocks. As time passed they all lost their legs. Trouble didn't. It still walks anywhere it wants. So do Gypsies. ~ Madame Mina Szabo, as learned from her grandmother Jerry

Even the best data-collection system is useless if there are no people available to manage it.

However, as life has become more computational, people haven't changed. Just because we have open government data doesn't mean we don't have corruption.

Quien vive en estas casas no es gente —rectifica el administrador. —¿No vive gente? —pregunta Gustavo—. Entonces ¿quién vive? —Ahora quien vive aquí es el miedo —responde.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Whereas the business community in the West is a community of companies, the business community in Asia is a community of people. In the West, companies tend to do business with one another. In Asia, the deals are all done between personalities.

Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.

This striking economic equality lies not only at the core of the happiness and success of the Danes but of the people of the Nordic region as a whole.

One key characteristic of Nordic cities is the lack of people. Queues, jams and crowds are a rarity in the North; even the capitals can have a semi-deserted air if you are arriving from London or New York. Where are all the people? But Helsinki made Oslo look like Mumbai.

Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

I look around at the beach where I grew up. This is where everything changed for me. I was just a girl who happened to witness the arrival of a strange race of people from under the sea. One of them was the most beautiful person I ever met. He walked out of the ocean and changed my life forever. — Lyric

Truth be told, most people would not be comfortable if they had to live permanently where their opinions and worldview naturally led.

Over time, the system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence, but that is another issue.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?