People Quotes
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Ann Landers
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
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
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.Fred Allen
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.Gerald W. Grummet
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.Marc Maihueird
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.W. Clement Stone
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.Helen Kelle
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.Rudyard Kipling
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.Sandra Cisneros
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.Sandra Swinney
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.Martin Luthe
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
