People Quotes

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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcom S. Forbes
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.
Art Costa
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplie
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.
Mark Twain
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon, Imagine
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
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
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore Harold White
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
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
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, 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
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu