People Quotes

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author Unknown
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.
George Stanley McGovern
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
John Whitehead
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Bob Dylan
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
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.
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthu
There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.
Joe Moore
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berge
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
You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Mark Twain
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
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