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Quotes About People

enemy than to suffer his people to be exposed to rapine
~ Thomas Asbridge
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
~ Thomas Becket
For although in that ancient and diffused adoration of Idols, unto the Priests and subtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be symbolical, and as those Images some way related unto their Deities; yet was the Idolatry direct and down-right in the people; whose credulity is illimitable, who may be made believe that any thing is God; and may be made believe there is no God at all.
~ Thomas Browne
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
~ Thomas C. Haliburton
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
~ Thomas C. Haliburton
Or, it goes the way of the dying seminar—fun but not enough fun, because there are not enough people to generate the loyalty and enthusiasm that would keep the number large and the absentee rate small.
~ Thomas C. Schelling
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
~ Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
We want to make Bing more than just search: to be the key intelligence engine behind the phone, get people to navigate, and present information in a meaningful way.
~ Jean-Philippe Courtois
In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.
~ Charlie Murphy
A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.
~ Peter Hitchens
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
~ Jason Alexander
My focus is not necessarily about money as much as people think.
~ Chamillionaire
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
~ Patrick Marber
We were going for an otherworldly feel, you know a lot of people tell us we look like aliens anyway. I don't know if it's just because there's two of us and we have big eyes and long necks.
~ Jessica Origliasso
If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy, that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.
~ Craig David
What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy society of people who want to go on stage and make people happy.
~ John Bishop
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
~ Ko Wen-je
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
~ Jose Mourinho
I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.
~ Colleen Hanabusa
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.
~ Finn Balor