People Quotes
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.Chinese Prove
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.T. S. Eliot
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.Noel Coward
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.H. G. Wells
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.Charles Lam
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
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
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.Garth Brooks, Country Music
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `Calvin Coolidge
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.Helen Kelle
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
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.Barbara DeAngelis
