People Quotes
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.Albert Schweitze
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.Despair. com
Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.Arthur McNallan
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.Lee Iacocca
The people are to be taken in very small doses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story so far: 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, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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
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
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.James Arthur Baldwin
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.Philip Guedalla
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.Author Unknown
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.Stanley Marcus
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.Hermann Hesse
