People Quotes
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.Zachariah Johnson
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.Henry Mille
People change and forget to tell eachother.Lillian Hellman
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
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
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.Robert A. Heinlein
Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyge
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Bertrand Russell
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.Malcolm S. Forbes
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Billie Holiday
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.Fran Lebowitz
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.Oscar Wilde
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.Jefferson Davis
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...Richard Phillips Feynman
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.Pauline Frederick
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.Peggy Joyce
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.Oscar Wilde
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.Robert Frost
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.Alphonse Ka
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.Eric Hoffe
