Some People Quotes

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Nothing, Hard

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

Made, Problem, Lives

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Enough, Others, Horse

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Happen, Wish, Others

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin

Work, Time, Why

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Used, Quality, Excellence

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, Passion, Guilty

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Why

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama

Power, Belief, Nonsense

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus

Energy, Nobody, Normal

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin

Die, Until, Buried

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski

Crazy, Live, Lives

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

Freedom, Government, Long

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Thankful, Roses, Thorns

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide

Succeed, Themselves, Knowing

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs

Funny, Design, Means

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn

Through, Spring, Until

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus

Sleep, Talk, While

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson

Emotional, Care, Bad

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi

Game, Football, Two

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Bob Dylan

Away, Gone, Seem

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
Jesse Ventura

Mind, Honest, Speak

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
Bill Cosby

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

Person, Naked, Poet

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson

Time, Everything, Big

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