I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.
You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Entertainment is there to improve people’s quality of life. After your basic needs, there’s entertainment.
People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
The idea behind fast food is great – people want convenience.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it’s drama, it’s the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Hell is other people.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Give light and people will find the way.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.
Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
I’m a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don’t.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
