People Quotes
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.Shimon Peres
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
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
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.Logan Pearsall Smith
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.Howard W. Newton
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.Frederick L Collins
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
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.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Logan Pearsall Smith
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.Mandell Creighton
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
