People Quotes

Adlai e. stevenson jr. - let us talk sense to the american people. let us...
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No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.
James Earl Jones
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.
Deborah Martin
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
Gregory Macguire, Wicked
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.
Jefferson Davis
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.
Unknown
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Herbert V. Prochnow
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
John M. Richardson, Jr.
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Ka
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
Virginia Woolf
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
You manage things you lead people.
Grace Murray Hoppe
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Neil Gaiman
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.
Will Rogers
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
Richard Milhous Nixon
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
Anatole France
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehre
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf