People Quotes

Emil nolde - clever people master life; the wise illuminate it...
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.
Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon Appelfeld
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Thomas carlyle - happy are the people whose annals are blank in...
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
Douglas h. everett - there are some people who live in a dream world,...
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
George Bernard Shaw
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehre
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
Mother Theresa
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.
Mark Twain
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Helle
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Charline Jordan
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.
Robert Sheckley
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehre
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?
Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
Karol Newlin
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich Heine