People Quotes
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.Marchioness Townsend
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.Gamal Abdel Nasse
The voice of the people is the voice of God.Alcuin
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.Simone Weil
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.Alex Carey
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.George Orwell
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Oscar Wilde
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.
Only the little people pay taxes.Leona Helmsly
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.Adrian Mitchell
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
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
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.Charles De Gaulle
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.Adolph Hitle
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.George Stanley McGovern
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.Bob Dylan
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Logan Pearsall Smith
