People Quotes
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.Henry Mille
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.G. K. Chesterton
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
To summarize: it is a well - Known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.Samuel Johnson
Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.Shimon Peres
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.Edward Lea
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
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
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
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Billie Holiday
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Many people hear voices when no - One is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.Meg Chittenden
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.Author Unknown
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.Anthony Robbins
