People Quotes

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince

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

Gerald W. Grummet

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wittgenstein

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Prove

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.

Dane Helmers

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Archard

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

Jane Austen

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter McArthu

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.

La Rochefoucauld