People Quotes

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

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

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Michael Winner, British film directo

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.

George Mason

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Samuel Gompers, said in 1908

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinge

USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population.

David Letterman

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audrey Hepburn

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Kelle

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

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

Computer Museum

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.

Ayn Rand

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

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.

American Indian Prove

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.

Thomas Carlyle

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Many people hear voices when no - One is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Meg Chittenden

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.

Deborah Martin

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter McArthu