People Quotes - Page 102

I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. Where is the justice in that?

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

It’s true that we can’t help the circumstances we’re born into and some of us start out in a much tougher place than other people. But just because we started there doesn’t mean we have to end there.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.