People Quotes

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato, The Republic

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Fred Allen

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.

Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".

People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

George Bernard Shaw

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Harold White

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.

Princess Anne

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Jean Ke

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Jane Austen

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.

William James

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

Agnes de Mille

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert V. Prochnow

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

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

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary S. Calderone

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Friedrich August von Hayek