Best 94850 quotes in «people quotes» category

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.

A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.