People Quotes
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.Bernard Bailey
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.Gregory Macguire, Wicked
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.Bertrand Russell
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
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
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.Chinese Prove
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.Ernest Hemingway
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.Lao - Tzu
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.Penn Jillette
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
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
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.Horace Greeley
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.Jeremy Collie
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
Generous people are rarely mentally ill.Dr. Karl Menninge
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.Theodore Roosevelt
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
