People Quotes
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.Rousseau
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.Johann von Goethe
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.Edgar Watson Howe
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
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
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
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
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
You manage things you lead people.Grace Murray Hoppe
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.Henry Ford
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.Benjamin Disraeli
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.Missy Dizick
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Dr. Karl Menninge
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
All people want is someone to listen.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
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 fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.James A. LaFond - Lewis
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.Walt Whitman
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.Shimon Peres


