People Quotes

George orwell, (attributed) - people sleep peaceably in their beds at night...
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
Robertson davies, the diary of samuel marchbanks, 1947 - i object to being told that i am saving daylight...
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
H. allen smith - when there are two conflicting versions of a...
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
Plato
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence Pete
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Shannon Mille
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
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
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
James A. Autry
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
E. M. Cioran
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
Shimon Peres
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.
William James
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain
Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson