People Quotes

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Donald G. Smith

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Thomas Peters

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Jeff Greenfield

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

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

William Arthur Ward

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.

Kurt Cobain

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

Robert Zend

The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Henry Sedgwick

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsly

We forfeit three - Fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhaue

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

Fred Allen

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant