People Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

William Simpson, A. C. L. U.

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Anthony Robbins

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcom S. Forbes

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

James F. Hind

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles De Gaulle

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Melissa Timberman