People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

I’m an emotional person.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I can be a cruel person.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.