People Quotes
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.Gore Vidal
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
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
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
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
My home is not a place, it is people.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.Kate Chopin
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
The conception of two people living together for twenty - Five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.Alan Patrick Herbert
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.Gore Vidal
If God dropped acid, would he see people?Steven Wright
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.Theodore Roszak
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.A. C. Benson
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?Neil Gaiman
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.Dave Barry
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
To summarize: it is a well - Known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.George Mason
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.Robert Frost
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.Unknown
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.Lady Asto
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.Author Unknown
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
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
