People Quotes

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Robert Solow
Thomas jefferson - the greeks by their laws, and the romans by the...
Frederick l collins - there are two types of people - - those who come...
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Lord Chesterfield
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
La Rochefoucauld
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
John Berge
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
German prove
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
People who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn West
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
Anthony Sampson
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.
George Stanley McGovern
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.
Andrew Schneide
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II