People Quotes
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.Will Rogers
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.Edward Lea
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.Sidney Madwed
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.George Mathew Allen
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.Brenda Ueland
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.Dwight Morrow
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.Simone Weil
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
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
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Oprah Winfrey
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.Author Unknown
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.Kevin R. Hutson
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
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
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
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
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.Tom Lehre
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.Lawana Blackwell
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.Mary Pettibone Poole
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.Stanley Baldwin
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.Philip Wylie
