People Quotes

Henry david thoreau - what people say you cannot do, you try and find...
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitle
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
Walter Slezak
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Sandra Swinney
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
Kofi annan, in his
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Edgar watson howe - when people hear good music, it makes them...
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
Frederic William Maitland
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
Robert M. Pirsig
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Shopenhaue
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
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
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?
William Simpson, A. C. L. U.
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.
Anthony Robbins
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Chinese Prove
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
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
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
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen, Emma
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
Ernest Hemingway
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Alcuin
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
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 Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.
Thomas Jefferson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II