People Quotes

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Saki

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar el Sadat

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.

Benjamin Disraeli

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Jane Austen

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

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.

Charles De Gaulle

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.

Arthur McNallan

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

Unknown

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Groucho Marx

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.

Victor Borge

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

Abraham Lincoln

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert V. Prochnow

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Thomas Peters