People Quotes

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Mark Twain
George eliot, middlemarch - some people did what their neighbors did so that...
Clare booth luce - you see few people here in america who really...
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
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
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.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
Gregory Macguire, Wicked
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S Thompson
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
Samuel Butle
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Horace Greeley
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sidney Madwed
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Faulkne
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
J. P. McEvoy
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.
Joe Moore
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
Simeon Strunsky
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Prove
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.
Morrow Mayo
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determined people working together can do anything.
Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
Matthew Arnold
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life