We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

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.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

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

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.