People Quotes
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.Stanley Baldwin
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.Herbert Schille
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.Will Cuppy
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.V Naipaul
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.John M. Richardson, Jr.
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.Giacomo Leopardi
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.Joe Moore
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.Nora Ephron
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.Pauline Frederick
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.Buddha
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.Joe Moore
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.Earl Nightingale
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...Samuel Adams
When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.Samuel Goldwyn
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao Tzu
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.Sir Francis Bacon
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.Henry Clay
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.Tom Lehre
Weak people cannot be sincere.Le Rochefoucauld
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.G. K. Chesterton
