People Quotes
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.Henry Ford
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.Albert Einstein
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
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
Generous people are rarely mentally ill.Dr. Karl Menninge
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.Jean Ke
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Jane Fonda
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.Aesop, The Dog in the Mange
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.John M. Richardson, Jr.
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
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
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
Television is the triumph of machine over people.Fred Allen
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.U. S. Constitution
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
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
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Oscar Wilde
