People Quotes

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Albert Camus
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.
Joe Moore
David viscott - in the end, the only people who fail are those...
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Horace greeley - it is impossible to mentally or socially enslave...
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Mother Theresa
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Alcuin
Oscar wilde - it is absurd to divide people into good and bad....
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
La Rochefoucauld
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gel
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Mandell Creighton
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
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.
Bokonon
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
T. S. Eliot
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Oscar Wilde
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
George Orwell