Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Michel de Montaigne

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

Michael Novak

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Michael Newdow

People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

Michael Newdow

I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs.

Michael Nesmith

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Michael Nesmith

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

Michael Nesmith

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Keaton

I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

Michael Korda

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Michael Kirby

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.

Markus Zusak

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Markus Zusak

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

Markus Zusak

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

Let's be clear, people turned to TV to view this event,

Jennifer Beals

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.

Lapo Elkann

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

Theophilus London

Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang... that's my dude.

Emma Thompson

Let's see how this one goes, but I have one up my sleeve if we think that people want it.

Ravi Teja

Lot of work can be completed by 7 A.M.; people who wake up at 10 and 11 don't know what they are missing.

Camilo Villegas

Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

Robert Greenblatt

Look, we're all for controversy and doing things that make people feel uncomfortable; it's a part of who we are.

Let's get some compensation out there for people that's sick -- Get this over and done with, start making decisions,

Many of the tourists don't know the side streets. For the most part, people have to be patient.

Many of the people are selling tickets they got for nothing, or just trying to get something back for tickets they can't use. Most people are reasonable in what they want for the tickets.

Many, many people pray. Many people would like to know if their prayers are being heard.

Michael Ian Black

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

Many people come back for the half-price part of the sale.

Hideo Kojima

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing.

Don King

Many people are criticizing the slowness of the process,