People Quotes
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.David Viscott
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.Author Unknown
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.Woodrow Wilson
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.Douglas H. Everett
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.Robert Sheckley
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.Horace Greeley
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.Arthur McNallan
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.Geof Greenleaf
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
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 ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.Fred A. Manske, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.Jon Wynne Tyson
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
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
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
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln

