People Quotes

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

Ben Franklin

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Lando

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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 has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.

Thomas Carlyle

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carve

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collie

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev