Quotes About People

The proposition was and is that people are better able to manage their lives than government can manage them. Under conditions of liberty, the result is prosperity and orderly civilization. Under government control, the result is relative poverty and unpredictable chaos. The proof is in the news every day.

Writing that is only about a time is not literature, it is history. If it is only about a place, it is geography. Literature is about neither; it is about people and all of the wide range of joys and troubles that people tumble into.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

It was the 'Marriage.'" "What do people marry for?" Miss Wardle said. I've sometimes wondered." "My dear, don't ask me." "One marries for latitude, I suppose." "Or to become a widow." "I'd give such worlds to be a widow," Miss Pontypool declared. "It's a difficult thing to be," Mrs. Barrow assured her.

To achieve self-mastery and insight requires a lifelong regimen of asking questions, thinking things through, liberating your mind, benefiting from the perspectives of other people, and caring for your soul.

In the midst of . . . despair, came November the 8th, 2016. It was on that day . . . that God declared that the people, not the pollsters, were gonna choose the next president of the United States. And they chose Donald Trump

Voters tend to forget that presidents are, first and foremost, people. If they are unbalanced, nasty, and hypocritical, that will be reflected in their judgment and job performance. If

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution

Freedom . . . is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

The last year of Cicero's life, full of glory and eloquence no doubt, was ruinous to the Roman People.

You are more likely to be successful, overall, if you participate joyfully with projects and goals and do not think your life depends on achieving the mark because then you will be better able to connect to people all around you.

It was ancient and had risen from the boiling earth. It had slept, falling dormant in the dust, rising in mist. Tuberculosis had flown in a dizzy rush to unite with warm life. It was in each new world, and every old world. First it loved animals, then it loved people too.

Penstemon's conviction is that people miss the scent of paper, so clean and dry and pleasant.

Did you ever eat commodities?' I asked Pollux. 'You know I did. My Grandma had a closet of commodities that people traded to her. Everybody wanted the cheese and the peaches.' …We ate government commodities, sure, but we had our own recipes…

Animikiins used all his skills. But the earth is good at swallowing up all traces of people. At last, in spite Animikiins's great powers, they lost his trail.

For real food our people had traveled off reservation twenty miles or more to put our money in the pockets of store clerks who watched us with suspicion and took our money with contempt.

People who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away... But don't try and make them like you.

You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.