People Quotes - Page 1035

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

The quiet people just do their work.

It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.