People Quotes
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.Rush Hou
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.Albert Einstein
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.Quentin Crisp
People forget how fast you did a job - But they remember how well you did it.Howard Newton
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.David Viscott
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.Chuck Palahniuk
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.Eric Hoffe
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
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
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.Thomas Jefferson
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.Plato
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
The only completely consistent people are the dead.Aldous Huxley
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.Indira Gandhi
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.Thomas Peters
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
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
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.S? ren Kierkegaard
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.Robert Graves
