People Quotes
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.Thomas Jefferson
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.Robertson Davies
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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.Giacomo Leopardi
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
There are more fools in the world than there are people.Heinrich Heine
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.Ernest Hemingway
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.Ellen Goodman
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.Author Unknown
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.Lillian Hellman
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.Henry Kissinge
In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.Unknown
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
