People Quotes - Page 882

Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.

I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.

I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.