People Quotes
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.Philip Guedalla
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.German prove
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
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
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?William Simpson, A. C. L. U.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.Adrian Mitchell
People change and forget to tell eachother.Lillian Hellman
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
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".
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
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 Medusa and the Snail (1979)
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.Giacomo Leopardi
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.Author Unknown
I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Fame is proof that people are gullible.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
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
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.Thomas Jefferson
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
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
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.Paul Duncun
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
