People Quotes
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.Alphonse Ka
Ambition is not a vice of little people.Michel de Montaigne
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.Jefferson Davis
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.Dorothy Parke
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.Juvenal
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.Will Rogers
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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?Pat Schroede
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
People are more easily led than driven.David Harold Fink
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.Heraclitus
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.Bob Dylan
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.Author Unknown
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.Srully Blotnick
