People Quotes

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jackie Collins

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Mark Twain

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Unknown

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

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

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

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

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

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

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Frank H. Crane

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S Thompson

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jane Fonda

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Mary Schmich

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken

The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.

Samuel Johnson