People Quotes

Zelda - most people hew the battlements of life from...
When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
Thomas C. Haliburton
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
W. somerset maugham - people ask for criticism, but they only want...
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
Ellen goodman - i have never been especially impressed by the...
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Smiley Blanton
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
Caligula
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
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
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Prove
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.
Kenneth Chang
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewig
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
George Mason
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parke
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
Richard Milhous Nixon
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde