People Quotes
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.Mary Wilson Little
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
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
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
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
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
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.Thomas Jefferson
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.Napoleon
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
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.Rudyard Kipling
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.Marita Bonne
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.Indira Gandhi
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.J. D. Salinge
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.Anthony Brandt
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.Oscar Wilde
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.Henry Ford
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.Jimmy Durante
