People Quotes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.Ellen Goodman
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.Will Rogers
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.Friedrich August von Hayek
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.George Jean Nathan
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.Malcolm Forbes
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
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.Bertrand Russell
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.Katharine Whitehorn
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.Charles Franklin Kettering
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.Oscar Wilde
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.Mary Schmich
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.Bede Jarrett
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...Richard Phillips Feynman
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
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
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.Eric Hoffe
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.Ogden Nash
