People Quotes

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Karol Newlin

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

Kahlil Gibran

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Doug Larson

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Wilbur N. Nesbit

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

Edward R. Murrow

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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".

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca 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

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.

Gunnar Myrdal

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

Adolf Hitle

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Lao - Tzu

The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

Alcuin

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Edgar Watson Howe

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.

Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction