People Quotes - Page 654

[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.

If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.