People Quotes

Osho, my way: the way of the white clouds - if people become ecstatic the whole society will...
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....
Sinclair Lewis
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
C. S. Lewis
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Henry Ward Beeche
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Darlington Morley
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
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
Joseph Joubert
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Hermann Hesse
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
Real Live Preache
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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 who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Michael J. Gel
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.
Josef Stalin
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? ".
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
Barbara DeAngelis
It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.
Jill Peterson
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Helle
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm S. Forbes
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switze
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
Lindsay Lohan
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande