People Quotes

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

George Orwell

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warne

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Italian Prove

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.

Danish prove

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Australian Aboriginal Elde

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop, The Dog in the Mange

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

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

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berge

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Nikita Khrushchev

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

Edward Keating

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

Sylvia Breme

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams