People Quotes

Abraham lincoln, gettysburg address - and that this country shall have a new birth of...
Anne frank, anne frank: the diary of a young girl, july 15, 1944 - it? s a wonder i haven? t abandoned all my...
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
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.
Child Age 15
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
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
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.
Soren Kierkegaard
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.
Edward Lea
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Jon Wynne Tyson
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Brendan Francis
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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".
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.
Malcolm Forbes
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.
Kevin R. Hutson
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Lady Asto
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.
Edward Keating
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucald
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
Woody Allen
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
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
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas