Quotes about people
people doing-nothing social
Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing. Pat Paulsen
people way conversation
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people. Padgett Powell
people criticism hurtful
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that. Paddy Ashdown
people britain blair
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git. Paddy Ashdown
people want politician
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. Paddy Ashdown
people institutions chips
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. Paddy Ashdown
people titles prejudice
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. Paddy Ashdown
people trying acting
Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want. Paddy Considine
people trying answers
I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts. Paddy Considine
people medical cures
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! Paddy Chayefsky
people broken promise
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. Paddy Chayefsky
people gardening modern-life
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined. P. J. O'Rourke
people
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. P. J. O'Rourke
people atheism stubborn
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. Plato
people language mathematics
Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people ... Plato
people would-be body
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. Plato
people priorities care
... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible... Plato
people wiser ifs
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
people bears
People can bear anything. Philip Slater
people hats type
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. Philip Treacy
people feel-good hats
Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. Philip Treacy
people hats radical
Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that. Philip Treacy
people bully shy
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. Philip Zimbardo
people firsts heat
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine. Philip Zimbardo
people poetry about-yourself
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself Philip Larkin
people suffering energy
I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament. Philip Seymour Hoffman
people world problem
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. Paulo Freire
people decision leader
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. Paulo Freire
people groups individual
I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance. Paul Zane Pilzer
people calling higher
When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling. Paul Zane Pilzer
people balance different
There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different. Paula Fox
people dumb cyclones
When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone. Paula Fox
people important one-day
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late. Paula Fox