People Quotes

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.
Donald G. Smith
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.
Edward Keating
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.
Cicero
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Stanislaus
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Robertson Davies
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha
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 people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.
Child Age 15
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Saki
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Paul Fussell
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.
Herbert Spence
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nade
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith