People Quotes
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.Agatha Christie
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.Peggy Lee
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.Edward Lea
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.Herbert V. Prochnow
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
The people are to be taken in very small doses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine
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
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Hell is other people.Jean - Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.Jane Austen, Emma
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
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
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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
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.Groucho Marx
There are too many people, and too few human beings.Robert Zend
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
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.Baltasar Gracian
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
