People Quotes

Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collie

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Hell is other people.

Jean - Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.

Heinrich Heine

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Michael J. Gel

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Christopher Darlington Morley

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

Walter Slezak

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Frederick Nietzsche

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Author Unknown

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

Jess Lai

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinge

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

Charles Jones

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams

Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Richard Milhous Nixon

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah