People Quotes

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.

Princess Anne

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Harry Millne

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

Lillian Hellman

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Dave Barry

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

Jonathan Swift

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Art Linklette

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

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

Warren Bennis

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.

Dave Barry

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Prove

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell