People Quotes

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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

Bertrand Russell

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

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.

Michael Marino

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

C. S. Lewis

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

Jess Lai

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.

Ayn Rand

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Confucius

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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.

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.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Blackstone

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

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Ghandi

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche