People Quotes - Page 16

• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Land, Honor

  18 Copy quote

• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, Age, Complaining

  34 Copy quote

• How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

  Susan George

  Democracy, Needs, Levels

  23 Copy quote

• People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

  Richard Gere

  Ideas, Doe

  "The Gere hunter". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.

  Gina Gershon

  Thinking, Long, Care

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 8, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  Paul Getty

  Couple, Airplane, Rushing

  9 Copy quote

• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Writing, Leader, Different

  24 Copy quote

• Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

  Robin Gibb

  Losing, Realizing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Advice, Please, Asks

  19 Copy quote

• I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were. It kind of worried me; these are some pretty disturbing and sad pieces. Why do people think they're funny?

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lying, Deceit, Taste

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Spain

  7 Copy quote

• The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Everyday Problems, Leader

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

  Richard Gere

  Practice, Billions

  6 Copy quote

• The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

  Jim Gerlach

  Government, Creating, Liberty

  4 Copy quote

• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Geronimo

  Sleep, Wind, Tree

  49 Copy quote

• Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

  Gina Gershon

  Important, Feeding, Don't Trust

  8 Copy quote

• There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

  Ricky Gervais

  Inspiration, School, Humor

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Positive, Decision, Mind

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Faces, Accepting, Deflation

  "Q&A: Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan and Chester Dawson, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  Barry Gibb

  Insecure, Insecurity, Fame

  24 Copy quote

• But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

  Barry Gibb

  Sky, Streets

  23 Copy quote

• I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

  Robin Gibb

  Rooms, Flight, Stairs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Caring, Alzheimer's, Giving

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Girl, Mean, Kids

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source