People Quotes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Neil Gaiman
Stephen crane, the red badge of courage, chapter 8 - he saw that it was an ironical thing for him to...
Bertrand russell, conquest of happiness (1930) ch. 10 - a sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive...
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
Author Unknown
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Home
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
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
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Wilbur N. Nesbit
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.
Pauline Frederick
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.
Paul Williams, Das Energi
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.
Dave Barry
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William Bennet Munro
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.
Donald G. Smith