People Quotes

Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Mathew Allen

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

William A. Orton

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Charles Chincholles

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Robert Zend

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

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Theodore Roethke

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

H. L. Mencken

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

Paul Duncun

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.

Nancy Banks - Smith