People Quotes
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.Edwin Percy Whipple
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
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.Charles De Gaulle
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.George Bernard Shaw
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
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
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.Carl Sagan
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.Fred Allen
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.J. D. Salinge
Two people kissing always look like fish.Andy Warhol
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.Mark Twain
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.Despair. com
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
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
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
