People Quotes
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.William Hazlitt
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.Woody Allen
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.Danish prove
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.Art Linklette
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.Oscar Wilde
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.William Allen White
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
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
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.David Viscott
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.Ed Cunningham
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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.Marya Mannes
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
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
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.Nancy Spain
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.Albert Camus
Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.Shimon Peres
