People Quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.

Samuel Johnson

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

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

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas J. Watson

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

Author Unknown

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

George Eliot

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe