People Quotes

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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Jackie collins - the biggest critics of my books are people who...
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Charles Franklin Kettering
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.
Anthony Robbins
I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.
Benjamin Disraeli
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
Walter Slezak
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffe
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.
Douglas H. Everett
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar el Sadat
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Clarence Jordan
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcom S. Forbes
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
Frederick L Collins
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
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