People Quotes
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
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.Walter Ke
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.W. Clement Stone
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.T. S. Eliot
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.Unknown
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.Zachariah Johnson
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.Author Unknown
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
To be closer to God, be closer to people.Kahlil Gibran
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.Ellen Goodman
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.Martin Luthe
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.Isarel Gallegos
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.George Mason
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.Author Unknown
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.S. I. Hayakawa
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.Robert Henri
