People Quotes
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
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.Author Unknown
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.Author Unknown
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.Lillian Hellman
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.E. V. Lucas
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.W. Somerset Maugham
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.Malcom S. Forbes
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.Harold S. Geneen
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.Harry Emerson Fosdick
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.Bob Hope
