People Quotes
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.Penn Jillette
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyge
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
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
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.Kenneth Chang
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.Harold S. Geneen
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
People who know the least always argue the most.Author Unknown
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.Philip Guedalla
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.A. C. Benson
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.Laurence J. Pete
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.Albert Einstein
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.Despair. com
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.Joan Baez
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.Albert Einstein