People Quotes
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.Robert M. Pirsig
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.Theodore Roethke
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.Sam Malone, Cheers
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.Albert Einstein
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.Tom Morris
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.Alexander Pope
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
My home is not a place, it is people.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.Robert Solow
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
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.La Rochefoucauld
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.Eric Hoffe
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?Pat Schroede
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.Marita Bonne
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
