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

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen, Emma

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Jim Morrison

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

Jimmy Durante

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson, Jr.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

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

George Mikes

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

Giacomo Leopardi

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Agnes De Mille

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.

Ayn Rand

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henry Mille

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

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

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Author Unknown

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost

You manage things you lead people.

Grace Murray Hoppe