People Quotes

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary S. Calderone

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

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

Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luthe

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.

Brenda Ueland

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.

Unknown

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Anthony Robbins

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.

Computer Museum

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglas

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Samuel Johnson