People Quotes

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Mary Schmich

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Edgar Watson Howe

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

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 denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.

Edward Keating

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.

Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

Bertrand Russell

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.

Samuel Johnson

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo