People Quotes

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.

Cicero

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy.

Sanaya Roman

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

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

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter McArthu

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Art Linklette

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari

What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.

Albert Einstein

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant