People Quotes

We forfeit three - Fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Jean Ke
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S Thompson
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay
Agnes de mille - the truest expression of a people is in its dance...
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Oscar wilde - only dull people are brilliant at breakfast....
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
Samuel Adams
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
George washington carve - anything will give up its secrets if you love it...
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
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
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Saki
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefelle
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Jeremy Collie
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
Paul Duncun
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsly
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andr Dubus
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
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
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
George Mason
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan