Quotes with people]

Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 5195.

  • George Bernard Shaw There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Rice There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
    - +
     0
  • Louis Kronenberger There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Idol There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Castle There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Medley There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill James There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, he says, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
    Source: The Mind of Bill James, 2006, p. 191
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Adam Osborne There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Nikki Giovanni There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Cass Sunstein There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Affleck There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
    Source: The Hollywood Reporter, Oct. 19, 2012 issue
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
    - +
     0
  • Afrika Bambaataa There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Hader There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bee Wilson There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
    - +
     0
  • Anne Northup There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
    - +
     0
All people] famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 213)