People Quotes - Page 919

It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.

When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.