People Quotes
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
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
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.Welsh Prove
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.Friedrich Nietzsche
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Wittgenstein
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
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
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.Hunter S Thompson
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.Frank H. Crane
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.Unknown
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
