People Quotes
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
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
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
Determined people working together can do anything.Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
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
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.John Henry Newman
Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet?Roger Mille
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
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.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.Marita Bonne
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.Alan Corenk
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.Noam Chomsky
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.Logan Pearsall Smith
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.Frank Lloyd Wright
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.Dorothy Parke
