People Quotes
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.Tshunka Witko
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.Jane Fonda
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.Bob Dylan
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.James Earl Jones
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.Adolph Hitle
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.Leo Tolstoy
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".
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.La Rochefoucauld
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
The voice of the people is the voice of God.Alcuin
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.Fred Allen
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.Agatha Christie
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
