People Quotes

Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
Anatole France
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Mandell Creighton
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.
Herbert Spence
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin Dada
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?
Pat Schroede
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.
Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
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.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
William James
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
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
Gore Vidal
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Unknown
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Benito Mussolini