People Quotes

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Mark Twain

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

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

Dave Letterman

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

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

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Bede Jarrett

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.

Andre Gide

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beeche

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Paul Fussell

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran