People Quotes

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Bede Jarrett

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

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Jon Wynne Tyson

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

Marc Maihueird

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitle

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.

Lord Chesterfield

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Arthur Baldwin

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Penn Jillette

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

Joe Moore

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Archard

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing