Quotes About People

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

It's in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if they can be terrible too, then maybe they can be vulnerable too, caring too, and all the things that you are and hope to be.

Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.

Her bone-white face lit up like she was at a surprise party. "Hear that, Dwyer? He called me ma'am! Stay forever if you want, big guy. Teach my son a thing or two about manners." "He's good people," Kyle said. "Always has been." It was the last thing I wanted to hear at that moment. "I'm not always good," I shot back. "Ooooo, polite and a bad boy," Gina cooed. "Watch out, ladies.

A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!*

Usually the people who claim loudest the mantle of da'wa are the people who are most effective in calling people away from Islam. "Course Intensive - Introduction" by Shaykh Abdal Hakim - @39:50

People are like shadows: if you follow them, they run away from you; if you run away from them, they follow you.

For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.

If the posters and the campaigns and demonstrations were a guide, any injustice in the world seemed to be theirs to claim, accompanied by frivolities that were like a celebration of disorder. They were fortunate people who desired to own even the suffering of others.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

This would account for those moments of Oh! there you are! After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.