People Quotes
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.Horace Greeley
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.Carl Sandburg
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.Sanaya Roman
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.Oscar Wilde
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.Ira Erwin
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.Anthony Robbins
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.William Gladstone
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
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
To summarize: it is a well - Known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...Richard Phillips Feynman
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.Eric Hoffe
