People Quotes
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
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
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.Henry Sedgwick
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.Robert A. Heinlein
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
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
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
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
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.Agnes De Mille
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.Sanaya Roman
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
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.Albert Einstein
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
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.Despair. com
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
