People Quotes - Page 1397

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

A few years ago, the Bose Acoustics Corporation had a new product, the Bose Wave Music System. And their ad campaign for it was not successful until they changed one thing. At the top of the ad they said, "Hear what you've been missing." And that caused the skyrocketing of the interest in purchasing of the product. Why? Because with something new, people are uncertain, and when they are uncertain, they want to avoid losses.

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it. It's the ability to cause people to have something at the top of their consciousness that makes them receptive to your message that's yet to come.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.