People Quotes - Page 304

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.