“When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.”
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People Quotes — page 603 of 5018
“Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.”
“I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.”
“The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent”
“People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.”
“And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.”
“Do people trip over you?”
“Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.”
“People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.”
“Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.”
“I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.”
“No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.”
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.”
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
“We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.”
“What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.”
“Some people are afraid to dress in ways that they actually like because it might be different than what most people expect or how others dress.”
“I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.”
“I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.”