People Quotes
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.Henry Ford
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.William Gladstone
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.R. H. Grant
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.Charles Lam
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
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
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
Weak people cannot be sincere.Le Rochefoucauld
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
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.Ogden Nash
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.E. M. Cioran
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.Melissa Timberman
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Arthur Baldwin
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
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
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.Henry Van Dyke
People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?Emo Phillips
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.Mary S. Calderone
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.Indira Gandhi
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.Geof Greenleaf
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.Susan Sontag
