People Quotes

Giacomo leopardi - people are ridiculous only when they try or seem...
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
George santayana - the need of exercise is a modern superstition,...
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.
Frederick Nietzsche
Laurence pete - humility is the embarrassment you feel when you...
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
James Taylo
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Saki
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Arthur Baldwin
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.
Michael Marino
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
Joe Keenan
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
A hundred years for now? All new people.
Anne Lamott
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy
Progress is not created by contented people.
Frank Tyge
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
Charles Dickens
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.
Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
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
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha