People Quotes

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Dr. Karl A. Menninge

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglas

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Sandra Cisneros

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.

William James

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

Jimmy Durante

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Mei

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Nikita Khrushchev

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Christopher Darlington Morley

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

R. H. Grant

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Author Unknown

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps