Quotes on People

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak, _x000D_ and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.