People Quotes
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.Joan Baez
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.Despair. com
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
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.Arthur McNallan
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
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
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.Juvenal
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.Bernard Bailey
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.Oscar Levant
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.Harry Millne
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.Matthew Arnold
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
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
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
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.Jimmy Durante
