People Quotes
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.Jefferson Davis
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.Dane Helmers
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
All people want is someone to listen.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
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
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.Haniel Long
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.Eric Hoffe
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas A. Edison
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.Clement Atlee
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Anon.
The conception of two people living together for twenty - Five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.Alan Patrick Herbert
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.U. S. Constitution
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.Lawana Blackwell
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.Lord Chesterfield
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
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
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
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
