People Quotes

The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
Shirley maclaine - the more i traveled the more i realized that fear...
Edward keating - you do not destroy an idea by killing people you...
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Marchioness townsend - never tell a man you can read him through and...
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglas
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
Frederick L Collins
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia
Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
Thomas C. Haliburton
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population.
David Letterman
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.
Zachariah Johnson
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
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham