People Quotes
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
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.Frank Lloyd Wright
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.Sam Ewig
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.Alex Carey
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.George Stanley McGovern
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
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
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao Tzu
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.Philip Wylie
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.Will Cuppy
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.Frederick Nietzsche
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
People are more easily led than driven.David Harold Fink
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.H. G. Wells
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
