People Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Kahlil Gibran

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra, Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Henry Sedgwick

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

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

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Dwight Morrow

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.

Sam Malone, Cheers

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

Jean Caldwell

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.

Deborah Martin

People who know the least always argue the most.

Author Unknown

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen