People Quotes
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.Charles Lam
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.Oscar Wilde
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.Walter Slezak
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
The people are to be taken in very small doses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.S. I. Hayakawa
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.Andre Gide
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore Harold White
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.Lao - Tzu
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.John Adams
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.Confucius
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.Jeff Herman
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.Agatha Christie
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.Baltasar Gracian
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.Kurt Cobain
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.Frederick L Collins
