Quotes About People

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.

Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

The food was bad, the people were angry

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

So many people are miserable. They need someone to entertain them. Why can't it be me?

The problem, as it was in the 1930s, is that decent people refuse to believe that such far-fetched belligerence is planned, even when they see it in cold print.

Conversely, some people with BPD may cope with feeling out of control by giving up their own power; for example, they may choose a lifestyle where all choices are made for them, such as the military or a cult, or they may align themselves with abusive people who try to control them through fear.

I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people. [laughs]

Coisas ruins acontecem quando a maturidade é definida mais por conhecer do que por ser. O perigo está à solta quando você começa a amar mais as ideias do que ao Deus que elas representam e às pessoas que elas desejam libertar.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives