People Quotes

Dick cavett - as long as people will accept crap, it will be...
Milton friedman - governments never learn. only people learn....
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Mark Twain
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehre
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Prove
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Thomas Peters
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
Tom Robbins
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann von Goethe
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lai
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
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