People Quotes

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.

Jewish Prove

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Charles Simmons

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.

Andre Gide

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

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

Nancy Banks - Smith

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Bake

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams

All people want is someone to listen.

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

John Wooden

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

Jefferson Davis

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Unknown

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

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

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

George Santayana

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.

Author Unknown

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Penn Jillette

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

Agnes de Mille

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

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

Henry Clay

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Lao Tse

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle