People Quotes

In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.
Unknown
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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.
John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
People who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn West
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
Richard Rybolt
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.
Dane Helmers
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
Sidney Madwed
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29: 18
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David Thoreau
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
General Omar Nelson Bradley
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man? s lawful prey.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), British poet, artist,
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Author Unknown
Determined people working together can do anything.
Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
S? ren Kierkegaard
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson