People Quotes

Rebecca west - i myself have never been able to find out...
Unknown - there are people who make things happen, those...
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Bokonon
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.
Joe Moore
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Prove
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.
Shimon Peres
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Lord Chesterfield
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
George Dennison Prentice
People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Charline Jordan
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Prove
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Gerald W. Grummet
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.
Unknown
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...
Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.
Andre Gide
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.
Brenda Ueland
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Mother Theresa
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
Tom Morris
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
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