People Quotes
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
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".
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
If God dropped acid, would he see people?Steven Wright
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.Theodore Roszak
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.Clifton Fadiman
Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.Sam Malone, Cheers
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.Jason Hurst
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.Johann von Goethe
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
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.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.Mary S. Calderone
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.Thomas Jefferson
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
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)
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
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
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
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
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
