People Quotes
To summarize: it is a well - Known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
The conception of two people living together for twenty - Five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.Alan Patrick Herbert
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.Marian Anderson
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.Alphonse Ka
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
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
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.Computer Museum
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.Laurence J. Pete
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
A hundred years for now? All new people.Anne Lamott
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.Anatole France
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
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
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.Haniel Long
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
