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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about politics, contentment, people

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about people, wealth, use

And people treat you with greater reverence, not as an inquisitor but as a celebrity.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, celebrity, people, contentment

And yet the people of my generation who loved jazz were starved of it in terms of actually seeing our heroes until the exchange system started in 1956.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people

But the person I used to flirt with most of all was Shirley MacLaine.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, people

I think it's about body language it's about convincing people they should be comfortable with you.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about language, body, people, contentment

I'm a better listener than I thought I ever would be when I was growing up, I'm a lot less patient than I ought to be at times with people.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people, thinking

I'm totally convinced that some people have met me on a bad day and gone away thinking I'm a miserable sod, so I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people, doubt, thinking, bad luck, bad, day

In the main, people say the same thing in relation to the same thing.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people, relation, things

It can change, but in the main people don't say anything surprising.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about change, people

It's a funny thing, but when people talk about jazz piano nowadays they seem to overlook Earl, and I don't know why, because he had perfect musical taste.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about humor, perfection, things, people

More than two centuries have since the Hurons vanished from their ancient seats, and the settlers of this rude solitude stand perplexed and wondering over the relics of a lost people.

Quote by Francis Parkman about opinion, old, solitude, people

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Quote by Gordon Parks about influence, common sense, sense, work, life, people

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, people, bad luck, thinking, bad, things

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Quote by Gordon Parks about people, things, history, time

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really the important people are the people he photographs.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, people, world, good, good luck

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

Quote by Gordon Parks about nation, contentment, people

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Quote by Rosa Parks about time, day, idea, things, people

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Quote by Rosa Parks about life, people

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so other people would be also free.

Quote by Rosa Parks about recollection, people