People Quotes · Page 1,473

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

— Wanda Sykes

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

A lot of acting is waiting for people to let you do your job.

— Marielle Heller

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

— Kevin Whately

Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!

— Karan Johar

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

— George Carlin

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say…

— Bill Maher

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play…

— Carlos Santana

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of…

— Gucci Mane

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I…

— Mark Twain

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

— Lady Gaga

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I…

— Sasha Luss

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There are some people we cant ever give up no matter how angry we are with them¦ no matter how much we…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much…

— Nicholas Sparks

[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness…I never felt sorry for people like…

— Bill O'Reilly

Why don't I have enough money? The answer is obvious. Money is how people are measured. What you are worth is what…

— John S. Hall

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused…

— Jim Hightower

I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one…

— Mary-Louise Parker

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

— Ione Skye

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

— Orison Swett Marden

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

— Muriel Spark

People who wear brighter colors are extremely sexy and confident.

— Pooja Bedi

I get to meet different directors and different people.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.

— Lucy Dacus

All my life, I told people I want to fight with the real contender who deserves high-level fights.

— Islam Makhachev

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

— Jeb Bush

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

— Moshe Sharett

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

— Misty Upham

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

— Mohammad Azharuddin

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

— Mike Flanagan

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

— E. W. Howe

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

— Brad Henry

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

— Tom Stoppard

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

— Albert Einstein