People Quotes
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.General Omar Nelson Bradley
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.S. I. Hayakawa
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.Charles De Gaulle
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.Jack Kerouac, On the Road
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.Sinclair Lewis
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.Jimmy Durante
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.Robert Sheckley
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.Christopher Darlington Morley
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.Scott Adams
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.Lillian Hellman
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.Warren Bennis
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
