People Quotes

What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Simeon Strunsky

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

Unknown

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

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Mother Theresa

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

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

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Frederick Nietzsche

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

V Naipaul

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Virginia

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Karol Newlin

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Albert Schweitze