People Quotes

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lam
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There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert Henri
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Lao Tse
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Khrushchev
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.
George Stanley McGovern
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.
Signs
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao Tzu
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen
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.
Jane Harrison
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
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
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
Gurdjieff
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.
Clay Aiken, Teen People
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.
Kurt Cobain
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin