People Quotes
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.Will Rogers
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.Dwight Morrow
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.Frederick L Collins
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.Eric Hoffe
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.Marya Mannes
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.John Henry Newman
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.Dan Quayle
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.George Jean Nathan
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.C. S. Lewis
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.Lord Acton
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.Groucho Marx
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.Robert M. Pirsig
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.George Bernard Shaw
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.W. Somerset Maugham
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.Sam Ewig
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
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
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
Some people make headlines while others make history.Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.Alessandro Pronzato
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
