People Quotes
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
There are too many people, and too few human beings.Robert Zend
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.Lord Acton
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Dr. Karl Menninge
There are more fools in the world than there are people.Heinrich Heine
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?Emo Phillips
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
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.Hunter S Thompson
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.Stanley Marcus
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Oprah Winfrey
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
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
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
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
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.Samuel Butle
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
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.Simeon Strunsky
