People Quotes - Page 1437

I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a global consciousness of something, then that becomes a quote-unquote "truth" for everybody. You know, "This is what happens in the Kennedy family." "This is what happens with the Hemingways." And the more people believe in it, the more it kind of resuscitates the problem; it keeps bringing life to this idea that a curse exists that you can never get out from under.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.