People Quotes

Charles dickens, the old curiosity shop - i love these little people; and it is not a...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann von Goethe
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
John quincy adams - our constitution was made only for a moral and...
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
Philip guedalla - autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for...
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.
Alessandro Pronzato
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
Virginia Woolf
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
People who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn West
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
Voltaire
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?
E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.
Morrow Mayo
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Mary Schmich
There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.
Joe Moore
Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
Stephen Butler Leacock
Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
J. Wilbur Chapman
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.
Steve Pershing
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan