People Quotes - Page 1266

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

When people have children, they have to grow up!

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there

You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.