People Quotes
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.Lucille Ball
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.Marian Anderson
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.Josef von Sternberg
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.General Omar Nelson Bradley
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.John Kenneth Galbraith
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.Thomas C. Haliburton
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
