People Quotes

Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

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

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Kenneth Patchen

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Italian Prove

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Caligula

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Kim Hubbard

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

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

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

La Fontaine

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.

Kevin R. Hutson

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglas

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylo

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

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

J. Wilbur Chapman

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A. J. Liebling