People Quotes

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle, 09/88

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Archard

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

Albert Camus

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Clive Staples Lewis

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wittgenstein

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Larry McMurtry

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, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schille

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffe

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet