People Quotes

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Albert Einstein

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

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

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao Tzu

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.

Julie Morgenstern

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.

Danish prove

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

Fran Lebowitz

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

German prove

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.

Kurt Cobain

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.

Eda LeShan

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Rabbi David Wolpe

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West