People Quotes
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.Walter Ke
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Ambition is not a vice of little people.Michel de Montaigne
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?Pat Schroede
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.Jean Ke
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.Ira Erwin
Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.Peggy Lee
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
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
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
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.A. C. Benson
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.Earl Nightingale
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!William James
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.J. D. Salinge
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.Ernest Hemingway
When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.Samuel Goldwyn
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.George Bernard Shaw