People Quotes
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.Susan Sontag
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.Lawana Blackwell
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.Proverbs 12: 15
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.W. Somerset Maugham
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas A. Edison
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.Ernest Hemingway
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
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
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!Tom Lehre
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.Andrew A. Rooney
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet?Roger Mille
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...Richard Phillips Feynman
