People Quotes

Peter ustinov, dear me (1977) - contrary to general belief, i do not believe that...
George burns - too bad all the people who know how to run the...
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
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
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
Walter Slezak
What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.
American Indian Prove
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
Stephen Butler Leacock
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.
Juvenal
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
Paul Duncun
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
James A. Autry
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry
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
It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.
Jill Peterson
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Clarence Jordan
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
Most people my age are dead at the present time.
Casey Stengel
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V Naipaul
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
Unknown
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffe
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
Karol Newlin
Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
Shimon Peres