People Quotes

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Mei

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

George Santayana

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Jon Wynne Tyson

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

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

The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Charles Simmons

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

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.

Shimon Peres

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

Joe Moore

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Saki

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Will Rogers

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

Louis Vermeil

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate 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?

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

Earl Nightingale

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

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

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

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Stanley Marcus

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway