People Quotes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Ellen Goodman
George smith patton, jr. - never tell people how to do things. tell them...
Noam chomsky - all over the place, from the popular culture to...
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence Pete
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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 people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.
Juvenal
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
Voltaire
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Arthur Baldwin
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.
Steve Prefontaine
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.
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People who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn West
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitle
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.
Zachariah Johnson
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
Andrew A. Rooney
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
A hundred years for now? All new people.
Anne Lamott
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
Tom Robbins
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry