America’s wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. – Thomas Peterffy
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. – Virginia Woolf
I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it’s happened, the more people have come forward, I’ve really realized that we’re all kind of going through the same thing at the same time. – Shane Koyczan
I’ve learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people’s hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems. – Tom Selleck
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don’t understand. – Thomas R. Cech
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. – Wilfrid Laurier
All the characters on ‘Girls’ are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we’re young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics. – Zosia Mamet
Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch ‘Breaking Bad’ as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play – assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet. – Terry Teachout
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them. – Tommy Wiseau
You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. – Spike Jonze
I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I’m around – anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home. – Shari Sebbens
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done. – Shelley Fabares
Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin – people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda. – Travis Bradberry
There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there’s not many people on the other side helping users digest that content. – Steve Chen
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it’s like I don’t wear anything that interesting sometimes. – Tavi Gevinson
People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane. – Steve Largent
God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better. – TobyMac
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. – Vera Wang
You know, this is really a way of cooking. It’s not my way. I’m deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I’ve spent a lot of time there. And I’ve sort of translated it; I’ve tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar. – Sally Schneider
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. – Tom Wolfe
I’m almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face. – Steven Shainberg
I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me. – Taylor Swift
I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me. – Tom Jenkinson
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people. – Wayne Kramer
With King Abdullah’s leadership and his people’s trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs. – Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
I was astounded to learn that Alaskan caves might be hiding secrets about the earliest people ever to enter the Americas. That’s when I began to picture a story that would start with kayaking and lead into the caves. – Will Hobbs
