People Quotes

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.

~ Mark Cuban

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

~ Jason Calacanis

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

~ James Gray

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

~ Stefon Diggs

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

~ Hamza Yusuf

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

~ Anna Quindlen

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

~ James A. Garfield

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

~ Clarence Day

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

~ A. C. Benson

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

~ Pope Theodoros Ii

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

~ Alfred Austin

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.

~ Orlando Bloom

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

~ Joanna Lumley

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

~ Steve Jobs

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

~ Kim Kardashian

We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

~ Elon Musk

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

~ Serge Schmemann

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

~ Steven Wright

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

~ Do Won Chang

Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.

~ Astro Teller

There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

~ Zack Greinke

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

~ James Cagney

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

~ Adam Osborne

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

~ Ingvar Kamprad

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

~ J. G. Ballard

I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to see, and that's I've always done, so I'm not going to stop. People want to see my cars and my purses. People love fashion. But that's so not me.

~ Kylie Jenner

Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?

~ Steve Jurvetson

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

~ Clare Balding

Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

~ Henry Rollins

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

~ James Wan

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

~ Jason Statham