People Quotes
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.Gamal Abdel Nasse
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.Tom Lehre
Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.Crow, The
What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.American Indian Prove
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.Henry Ford
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.Unknown
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.Tom Morris
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.Lillian Hellman
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.Ogden Nash
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.Wally Lam
