People Quotes
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.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.George Orwell
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.Douglas Adams
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
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.Unknown
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.Thomas Jefferson
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
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
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.Douglas H. Everett
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.Thomas C. Haliburton
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.Shimon Peres
Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.Deborah Martin
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.Lord Chesterfield
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.Penn Jillette
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.John Wesley
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
