People Quotes

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

Unknown

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Marita Bonne

In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.

Unknown

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

General Omar Nelson Bradley

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas J. Watson

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Author Unknown

When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Eden Phillpotts

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Prove