People Quotes
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.Baltasar Gracian
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.James Earl Jones
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.Henry Kissinge
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.J. P. McEvoy
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.E. M. Cioran
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.Brian Tracy
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.Joan Baez
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Logan Pearsall Smith
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
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
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.P. T. Forsyth
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.Albert Einstein
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.Carl Sagan
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
