People Quotes

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing".

If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Charles Franklin Kettering

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Robert Byrne

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

General Smedley Butle

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

Mary Pettibone Poole

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berge

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross