300 Quotes on People

• From wistful laughter springs eternal truths layered in innocence, signaling that true wisdom blossoms somewhere between amusement and insight.

  Author: Lara Thompson

• Fleeting connections sometimes burn the brightest, lighting up the dim corridors of our fleeting days in a way permanence can never achieve.

  Author: Ella Truth

• Life's unexamined pieces coalesce into a tapestry of meaning only when we pause to observe the delicate threads that weave us together.

  Author: Ava Morrison

• Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• We're running the company to serve more people.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!"

  Author: David Zucker

• I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

  Author: David Zucker

• It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

  Author: David Zucker

• Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

  Author: David Zucker

• That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

  Author: John Zorn

• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

  Author: John Zorn

• It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

  Author: John Zorn

• It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

  Author: John Zorn

• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  Author: John Zorn

• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  Author: John Zorn

• Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

  Author: John Zorn

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Author: Rob Zombie

• It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

  Author: Zhao Ziyang

• Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  Author: Barry Zito

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  Author: Barry Zito

• If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• The way you see people is the way you treat them.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  Author: Xun Zi

• The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

  Author: Todor Zhivkov

• A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

  Author: Todor Zhivkov

• I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  Author: Panayiotis Zavos

• People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• You can't bomb a people just in case.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Author: Darryl Zanuck

• I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

  Author: Robin Zander

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Author: Fareed Zakaria

• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

  Author: Lin Yutang

• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

  Author: Rick Yune

• When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

  Author: Rick Yune

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  Author: Cao Yu

• You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

  Author: Robin Yount

• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Author: Robin Yount

• Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Author: Cole Younger

• Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

  Author: Whitney Young

• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Author: Toby Young

• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Author: Sean Young

• I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

  Author: Neil Young

• Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

  Author: Neil Young

• When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

  Author: Neil Young

• Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

  Author: Neil Young

• It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

  Author: Neil Young

• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

  Author: Margaret Young

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  Author: La Young

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  Author: La Young

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  Author: James Young

• People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

  Author: James Young

• And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

  Author: James Young

• People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

  Author: James Young

• We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

  Author: James Young

• There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

  Author: James Young

• My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

  Author: Gig Young

• Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

  Author: Don Young

• Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

  Author: Brigham Young

• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

  Author: Brigham Young

• Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

  Author: Angus Young

• There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

  Author: Angus Young

• I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

  Author: Angus Young

• To find people who don't want anything is rare.

  Author: Andrew Young

• A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• People never cease to amaze me.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  Author: Susannah York

• We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

  Author: Dick York

• Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

  Author: Dick York

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  Author: Dick York

• I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

  Author: Dick York

• I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

  Author: Dick York

• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  Author: Aaron Yoo

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  Author: Maharishi Yogi

• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• People in misery is what most important in art.

  Author: Zhang Yimou

• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  Author: Zhang Yimou

• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  Author: Zhang Yimou

• Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

  Author: Lee Yew

• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

  Author: William Yeats

• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  Author: William Yeats

• You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  Author: William Yeats

• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  Author: William Yeats

• Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

  Author: Chuck Yeager

• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

  Author: Al Yankovic

• In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

  Author: Chen Yang

• You don't have to show people how successful you are.

  Author: Martin Yan

• People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

  Author: Martin Yan

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• Let some people get rich first.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

  Author: Albert Wynn

• Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

  Author: Noah Wyle

• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'

  Author: John Wycliffe

• I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

  Author: William Wycherley

• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• I need to die for the killing of those people.

  Author: Aileen Wuornos

• Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

  Author: David Wu

• In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

  Author: Will Wright

• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Author: Will Wright

• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  Author: Will Wright

• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

  Author: Will Wright

• I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

  Author: Steven Wright

• There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

  Author: Steven Wright

• A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Author: Steven Wright

• If God dropped acid, would he see people?

  Author: Steven Wright

• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

  Author: Ronald Wright

• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Author: Rick Wright

• I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

  Author: Peter Wright

• I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

  Author: Peter Wright

• When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

  Author: Peter Wright

• We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  Author: Ian Wright

• Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

  Author: Georg Wright

• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Author: Chely Wright

• I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

  Author: Link Wray

• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  Author: Fay Wray

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  Author: Fay Wray

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  Author: Fay Wray

• A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

  Author: John Wozniak

• Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

  Author: James Woolsey

• My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

  Author: John Woolman

• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  Author: John Woolman

• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

  Author: Leonard Woolf

• I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Author: Bob Woodward

• In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

  Author: Carter Woodson

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