People Quotes

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Louis D. Brandeis
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There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
H. R. Schaffe
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
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehre
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthu
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
John Henry Newman
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Millne
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Dale Carnegie
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
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 is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Douglas Adams
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
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
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas H. Everett
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
Ellen Goodman