People Quotes
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.Henry Ford
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.Joan Baez
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.Anthony Robbins
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
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
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.Fannie Hurst
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.Charles Jones
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.Indira Gandhi
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.Bertrand Russell
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.Earl Nightingale
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.E. M. Forster, as a small child
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.Thomas Jefferson
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.Ann Landers
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.Alan Corenk
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten