People Quotes

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Prince Otto
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthu
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.
Benjamin Disraeli
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.
Josef von Sternberg
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Herbert V. Prochnow
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Ghandi
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylo
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
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
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
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
Shimon Peres
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.
Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield