“Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”
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People Quotes — page 717 of 5018
“I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are selfish women. Most people are a combination of the same.”
“I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.”
“Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.”
“I do get stressed at times, but I love what I do as an actor. This is the part that I don't like. I don't actually like talking about - I wish I could just go and get on with my job, because I love getting a script, breaking it down, working with other people, bonding with other people, fighting with other people, and out of those arguments, creating something that nobody expected and seeing it all come together. Telling a story, having an impact on people's lives, moving them and making them laugh.”
“I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.”
“People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.”
“We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.”
“Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.”
“...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.”
“A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.”
“But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.”
“...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.”
“Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.”
“Some people feed you with love.”
“I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.”
“I'm not going to pay good money to join a club that lets in people like me.”
“I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members.”
“To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.”
“Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.”