People Quotes
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.Walt Whitman
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.Robert A. Heinlein
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.Fran Lebowitz
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.John Jay Chapman
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.Elizabeth Berg
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!Tom Lehre
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.Mark Twain
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.Travis Walton
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `Calvin Coolidge
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.Gilbert K. Chesterton
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
I let the American people down.Richard Milhous Nixon
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.Mario Puzo
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.Scott Adams
