People Quotes
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas J. Watson
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.Ann Landers
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.Logan Pearsall Smith
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.Lillian Hellman
Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.J. Wilbur Chapman
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.Katharine Whitehorn
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.Virginia
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.Isarel Gallegos
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.Morrow Mayo
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
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.Ogden Nash
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.Nancy Lopez
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.Voltaire
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
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
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.Bette Midle
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.Plato, The Republic
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
