People Quotes

Albert guinon - there are people who, instead of listening to...
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthu
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.
Isarel Gallegos
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.
Andrew Schneide
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....
Sinclair Lewis
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Horace Greeley
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Pete
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary S. Calderone
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, 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
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
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
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehre
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Herbert V. Prochnow
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.
Alessandro Pronzato
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
P. T. Forsyth
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
Richard Phillips Feynman
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
Mary Pettibone Poole
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao Tzu
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.
Douglas H. Everett
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
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
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
Geof Greenleaf
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language