People Quotes

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

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

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

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

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Tom Lehre

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

Ira Erwin

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Rousseau

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

From the last episode of "Cheers".

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.

Josef Stalin

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895

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.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

John Harrigan

I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylo

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

C. S. Lewis

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

Sir Francis Bacon

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

Paul Duncun

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Buddha