People Quotes

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

~ Marsha Norman

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

~ Dalton Trumbo

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

~ Carl Reiner

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

~ Hermann Hesse

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

~ Robert Crumb

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

~ Maya Angelou

My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

~ Jane Goodall

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

~ Sigourney Weaver

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

~ Virginia Woolf

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

~ Adam Driver

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

~ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

~ Dean Kamen

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

~ Helen Hayes

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

~ Pam Brown

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

~ Cynthia Mckinney

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

~ Paloma Faith

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

~ Geraldine Brooks

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

~ Richard Dawkins

You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.

~ Don Rickles

There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.

~ Blake Lively

In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives.

~ Stephen Kinzer

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

~ Ben Carson

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

~ Rick Perry

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

~ Hugh Grant

Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

~ Lech Walesa

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

~ Michael T. Flynn

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

~ Tig Notaro

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

~ Harrison Ford

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

~ Mohsin Hamid

We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

~ J. D. Vance

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

~ Julia Stiles

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

~ Jim Demint

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

~ Nikki Haley

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

~ Octavia E. Butler

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

~ George Lois