People Quotes

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

~ Demi Moore

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

~ Mel Brooks

I believe in giving people a second chance.

~ George Zimmer

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

~ Dianne Feinstein

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

~ Mark Twain

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

~ Samuel Butler

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

~ Gustavo Dudamel

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

~ Sam Walton

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

~ Brian Eno

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.

~ Mike Birbiglia

A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.

~ Helen Fisher

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

~ Amber Heard

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

~ Peter Diamandis

I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

~ Billie Jean King

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

~ Luis Buñuel

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

~ Aaliyah

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

~ Leonard Bailey

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

~ Steven Tyler

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

~ Christopher Moore

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

~ Mary Szybist

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

~ Joe Biden

The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step.

~ John Zimmer

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

~ Paul Ryan

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

~ Walt Disney

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

~ Henry Rollins

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

~ Hillary Clinton

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

~ Hillary Clinton

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

~ Mitt Romney

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

~ Marco Rubio

For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

~ Michael Moore

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

~ Steven Pinker

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

~ Ben Bernanke

I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.

~ James Wan

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

~ Rob Lowe

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

~ Brad Paisley

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

~ Theresa May

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

~ Dick Van Dyke