People Quotes - Page 1317

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat I just feel really happy in the water.

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

People who think well, write well

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.