People Quotes

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.
George Stanley McGovern
The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
Andrew A. Rooney
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Marc Maihueird
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffe
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.
Signs
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
John Greenleaf Whittie
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
Albert Gallatin
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.
Shimon Peres
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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 low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
Alexander Hamilton
I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Ke
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffe
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Albert Camus
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams
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
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.
Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.
Rabbi David Wolpe
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.
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