People talking about you quotes

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

Alan Hansen

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Ted Rall

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Dennis Rodman

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengal

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhauer

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Browne

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

The people's good is the highest law.

Cicero

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Brenda Ueland

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker