People Quotes

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
Muhammad ali on the occasion of one of his retirements - there are more pleasant things to do than beat up...
Faith popcorn, the popcorn report, 1991 - the trouble in corporate america is that too many...
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Dave Barry
Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
Ralph waldo emerson - the people are to be taken in very small doses....
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author Unknown
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
Gurdjieff
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.
Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
Tshunka Witko
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Author Unknown
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?
William Simpson, A. C. L. U.
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Clarence Jordan
To be closer to God, be closer to people.
Kahlil Gibran
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Martin Luthe
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Unknown
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
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