People Quotes
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.Rousseau
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Dr. Karl Menninge
Successful people breed success.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.Lucille Ball
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.Robert Frost
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
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
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
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.Proverbs 12: 15
On account of us 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 might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.Frederick Douglas
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.Nancy Spain
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.Mark Twain
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.Stanley Marcus
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
