People Quotes - Page 848

Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

It really doesn't matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it