People Quotes

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.

Joe Moore

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

George Orwell, (attributed)

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.

Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible

USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population.

David Letterman

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Theodore Roethke

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Quincy Adams

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

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

Anatole France

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust