People Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Lillian Hellman

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

Richard Needham

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Penn Jillette

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wittgenstein

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

Isarel Gallegos

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Tom Lehre

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Harold White

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Peter McArthu

What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

George Stanley McGovern

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Robert Zend

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport