People Quotes
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.Jon Wynne Tyson
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.Samuel Goldwyn
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
There are too many people, and too few human beings.Robert Zend
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince
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
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.Oscar Levant
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.E. V. Lucas
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.Frederick L Collins
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.Lawana Blackwell
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.Fred Allen
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.Clare Boothe Luce
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
