People Quotes

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.
Thomas Jefferson
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J. R. R. Tolkien
William golding - among the virtues and vices that make up the...
Lao tse, in a discussion with confucious about the true nature of humanity. - give up your relentless moralizing, the continual...
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lai
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
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
Plato - good people do not need laws to tell them to act...
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann von Goethe
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary S. Calderone
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.
Samuel Johnson
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
Paul Duncun
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
Peter McArthu
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.
Jacob Neusne
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucke
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Michael Winner, British film directo
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author Unknown
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffe
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
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinge
Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine