People Quotes

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
George Jean Nathan
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
Elias Boudinot
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sidney Madwed
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.
Mark Twain
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.
Harold J. Seymou
Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
J. Wilbur Chapman
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.
Thomas Jefferson
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
George Eliot
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
Gunnar Myrdal
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
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
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Herbert V. Prochnow
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
Edward Irving Koch
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
John Adams
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster, as a small child
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
Samuel Adams
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus