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Quotes About People

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.
~ Sho Baraka
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
~ George Washington
Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
~ Gregory Maguire
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~ Henry Rollins
The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
~ Herbert Schiller
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
~ Laurie Garrett
Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with.
~ Amy Jo Martin
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
~ Charles Stanley
The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I'll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando's
~ Christopher Poole
Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.
~ Crispin Glover
Heaven is a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time!
~ David Berg
Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
~ Nathaniel Branden
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.
~ Edward Snowden
About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.
~ Evan Esar
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
~ Frederik Pohl
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
~ Herb Kelleher
If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?
~ Jane Goodall
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
~ John Lee Hooker
We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.
~ Marc Maron
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.
~ Ric Elias
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...
~ Robin Williams