People Quotes

Bonaro overstreet - perhaps the most important thing we can undertake...
Emil nolde - clever people master life; the wise illuminate it...
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop, The Dog in the Mange
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Will Durant
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Prove
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holme
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.
Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
Georges Jacques Danton, to his executione
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
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
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
William James