People Quotes

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Lord Acton

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

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

Edward Gibbon

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Kelle

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.

Author Unknown

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Louis Vermeil

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Author Unknown

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Buddha

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.

Thomas Jefferson

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Chinese Prove

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffe

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

There isnt 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 arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003