People Quotes - Page 1152

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

Coaches are sales people and change agents.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.