People Quotes

Edith sitwell - eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us...
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!
Juvenal, Satires
The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lam
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
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
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.
Will Rogers
Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
Anonymous
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
Mother Theresa
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reine
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
U. S. Constitution
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.
Crow, The
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.
Art Costa
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey