Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fay Weldon

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Witold Pilecki

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

I can get a tune out of most things with strings, but I'm not really sure I'm what could be called a musician. I find it fascinating working with people who can play other instruments and sing.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

William T. Vollmann

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

Dan Stevens

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Gordon Bethune

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Charlie Rose

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Charlie Rose

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Bill Maher

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

Keri Russell

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

Rihanna

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Pico Iyer

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

Patricia Cornwell

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

Aberjhani

By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.

Aaron Levie

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

A. B. Yehoshua

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Adrienne Rich

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Agatha Christie

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Adam Smith

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Ada Leverson

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

Ludwig von Mises

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Penelope Wilton

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

Pina Bausch

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

Mario Andretti

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

David Morrissey

I'm the youngest of four kids. There's something in me that will always be the youngest child, will always look up to people when they don't necessarily need it.

Diane Warren

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Clifford Geertz

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.