People Quotes
Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.Bertrand Russell
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.James Arthur Baldwin
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.Mandell Creighton
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.Author Unknown
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.E. M. Forster, as a small child
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.Author Unknown
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.Max Percy
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.Stanley Baldwin
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.Bertrand Russell
Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.Wally Lam
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.Barbara DeAngelis
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.David Viscott
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.Henry Sedgwick
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.Anatole France
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
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
