People Quotes
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.Ayn Rand
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
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.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.Susan Sontag
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.Albert Einstein
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
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
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.Benjamin Franklin
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
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.Thomas Peters
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.Saki
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.Gerald W. Grummet
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.John Stuart Mill
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.Max Beerbohm
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
Hell is other people.Jean - Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
