People Quotes
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.Herbert V. Prochnow
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.Heraclitus
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.Caligula
The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.Child Age 15
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.Robert Solow
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.Will Rogers
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.Gregory Macguire, Wicked
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.Benjamin Franklin
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.Dagobert D. Runes
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.David Viscott
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
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.Author Unknown
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
