People Quotes
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.Dr. Dale E. Turne
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.George Mason
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Ann Landers
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
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
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.Baltasar Gracian
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
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
When you tell the truth, people listen.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
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
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.Fannie Hurst
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
