What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

I want to do the right thing for the American people. And to be honest, secondarily, I want to do the right thing for the world.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

I just think the American people had better understand what's going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what [Russians] are!

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

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