People Quotes

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Elizabeth ii - i cannot lead you into battle. i do not give you...
Dr. laura schlessinge - people with integrity do what they say they are...
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T. S. Eliot
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
Mark Leepe
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato, The Republic
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
Kenneth Patchen
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Carl Jung
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
William Allen White
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.
Dave Barry
Many people hear voices when no - One is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
Meg Chittenden
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
John Quinton
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.
Will Rogers
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Fannie Hurst
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West