People Quotes

Jackie collins - the biggest critics of my books are people who...
Michael winner, british film directo - a team effort is a lot of people doing what i say....
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?
Pat Schroede
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Gerald
Hell is other people.
Jean - Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Wilbur N. Nesbit
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Bertrand Russell
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
Chinese Prove
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucald
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berge
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George Gallup
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Sainte - Beave
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
Denis Diderot
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe