People Quotes

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?

Pat Schroede

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

Joe Moore

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

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

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

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Jacques Prvert

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Harry Millne

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

Author Unknown

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.

Albert Einstein

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

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

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinge

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

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

What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplie