People Quotes
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.Kevin R. Hutson
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.Computer Museum
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.Lord Chesterfield
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
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
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
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.Deborah Martin
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 are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.Harold S. Geneen
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.Daniel Webste
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.George Mason
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
