People Quotes - Page 660

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

We think we can – as normal people generally do – put up with a certain amount of unanalyzed unconscious material as long as it remains more or less quiet and does not interfere with normal life and normal activities When the unconscious disturbs, it has to be dealt with; if it keeps quiet, we do not make a systematic offensive against it.

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.