People Quotes
Where there is no vision, the people perish.Proverbs 29: 18
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
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 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
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.Herbert V. Prochnow
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.Albert Camus
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.Walt Whitman
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
You manage things you lead people.Grace Murray Hoppe
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.Author Unknown
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
There isn? t 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 aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.Penn Jillette
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.Benjamin Franklin
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.Scott Adams
