People Quotes
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.James Earl Jones
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
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
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!Tom Lehre
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
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
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
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
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.Anwar el Sadat
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.John Greenleaf Whittie
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.Christopher Darlington Morley
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.La Rochefoucauld
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.Oscar Wilde
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.Idi Amin Dada
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.Georges Jacques Danton, to his executione
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.Robert Henri
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
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
