People Quotes

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

~ Tom Hiddleston

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.

~ James Howard Kunstler

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

~ Susan Sarandon

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

~ Jean-Henri Fabre

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

~ Michael Steele

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

~ Laurie Garrett

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

~ Salman Rushdie

I let the American people down.

~ Richard M. Nixon

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

~ Usain Bolt

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

~ Kevin Kelly

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

~ Antony Gormley

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

~ Jeremy Rifkin

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

~ James K. Polk

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

~ Edward Whitacre

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

~ Wen Jiabao

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

~ Michael Beschloss

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

~ Nelson Rockefeller

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

~ Simone Signoret

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

~ A. P. Herbert

Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget those who perished and the lessons learned on Sept. 11, 2001.

~ Chuck Norris

I think when I first realized that something interesting had happened was probably in 1994. There was a 25th anniversary of the ARPANET celebration and... somebody asked the question, 'Where did email come from?' I remembered that I had done this little program back in 1971. People looked back and nobody could find anything that predated it.

~ Ray Tomlinson

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

~ Don Sherwood

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

~ Sam Walton

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

~ George S. Patton

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

~ Zac Brown

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

~ Loni Anderson

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

~ Ben Whishaw

You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they'll make a valuable contribution and turn in amazing work. But, in order to have that expectation, you need to make sure you're fostering an environment that allows them to do so.

~ Kathryn Minshew

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

~ Alice Walker

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

~ Josh Hutcherson

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

~ Kathleen Edwards

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

~ David Attenborough

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

~ Thomas Sowell

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

~ Antonin Scalia

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

~ Jose Andres

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

~ Desmond Tutu

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

~ Stephen Covey

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

~ Terry Pratchett