People Quotes
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.Paul Duncun
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
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
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.Sandra Swinney
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.Plato, The Republic
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.Laurence J. Pete
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.Unknown
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
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.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.Jeanne - Marie Roland
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
