People Quotes

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Harry Millne

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.

Princess Anne

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Robert Sheckley

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Prove

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Pete

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.

George Mason

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

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Charles Chincholles

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grummet