Quotes About People

that there's a vast underground network for goodness at work in the world—a web of people who've put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more expansive, generous people and makes their lives more interesting.

Spanner's the facility doctor for Flaweds. Some people are put off by his drinking. Others are put off by his shoddy personal hygiene. I'm put off by his medical track record.

I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.

Perhaps you were too idealistic. I admit it. But I don't believe I overestimate the importance of ideals. Only when people believe in something can they move the world. The trouble is that people simply don't believe in open society as a goal worth fighting for.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle," he said. "We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

But freedom is not an American value; it is a universal value. Freedom cannot be imposed; it must be chosen. And when people are given the choice, they choose freedom.

Resettlement agents are special people," Sanja says, "and organizations that do this type of work should be celebrated more than they are.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.

In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President

the government both in the executive and the legislative branches must carry out in good faith the platforms upon which the party was entrusted with power. But the government is that of the whole people; the party is the instrument through which policies are determined and men chosen to bring them into being. The animosities of elections should have no place in our Government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal.

convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority;

Nem lehet boldoggá tenni az embereket akaratuk ellenére... Viszont ami a boldogtalanná tevést illeti...

My house seems remarkably full of people, he observed. Is it possible we were expected.

The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.

I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.

People who collect objects of rarity, my dear Eustacie, will often, so I believe, go to quite unheard of lengths to acquire the prize they covet.

It is not easy to seize land on which another people reside, oust them, then shout from the rooftops about alleged democratic principles.

They say he has made a fortune selling lobsters and renting houses to the summer people.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

Here's your first problem, he said, pointing at a sentence. 'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.

There is no limit to our ability and potential when we, as a nation and as a people, work together.