People Quotes

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Author Unknown

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.

Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

I let the American people down.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Michael J. Gel

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.

Alex Carey

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Idi Amin Dada

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

Richard Needham

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan