People Quotes

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

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

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Idi Amin Dada

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.

Morrow Mayo

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

Chinese Prove

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Author 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

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Lillian Hellman

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... 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, "On the Road".

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright