People Quotes - Page 1140

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want to hear anybody who can tell me something in addition to ways I already know about God or my spiritual principles.

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Many times we talk about the people that have come to enjoy the show. They went through a lot to get here, whatever they needed to work out in their lives; they got babysitters, they traveled, and purchased the tickets. So it's up to us to deliver the goods!

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.

Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.