People Quotes

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

~ William Scranton

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

~ Neve Mcintosh

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

~ Steven Pressfield

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

~ Zeljko Ivanek

I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.

~ Lauren Worsham

I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

~ Pat Cadigan

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

~ Cass Canfield

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

~ Stella Adler

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

~ Missy Elliott

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

~ Maya Angelou

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

~ Conor Mcgregor

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

~ Martin Henderson

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

~ Sojourner Truth

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

~ Michael Jackson

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

~ Stella Adler

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

~ Abraham Lincoln

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

~ Avigdor Lieberman

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

~ Bill Gates

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

~ Josh Billings

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

~ Antisthenes

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

~ Shana Alexander

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

~ Billy Wilder

People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

~ Howard E. Wasdin

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

~ Giordano Bruno

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

~ William Butler Yeats

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

~ Brad Pitt

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

~ Joan Of Arc

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

~ William F. Buckley

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

~ Dick Thornburgh

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

~ Ellen Degeneres

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

~ John F. Kennedy

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

~ Natalie Goldberg

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

~ Eartha Kitt

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

~ Andy Rooney

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.

~ Scott Adams

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

~ Walter Lippmann

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

~ Miriam Makeba

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

~ Barbara Boxer

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

~ Louis Agassiz