People Quotes
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.Buddha
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.George Stanley McGovern
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.Mark Twain
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.Anthony Brandt
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.Jewish Prove
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.Douglas Adams
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.Jimmy Durante
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.Scott Adams
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.Harry Emerson Fosdick
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.George Jean Nathan
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.Robert Graves
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
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
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.Mark Twain
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.Unknown
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.Elizabeth Berg
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
