People Quotes
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.George Bernard Shaw
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.Author Unknown
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.Sandra Swinney
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
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
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.Lillian Hellman
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
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)
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.John Kenneth Galbraith
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?Neil Gaiman
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.Kurt Cobain
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.Albert Einstein
