People Quotes

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.

Edward Keating

Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

Josef von Sternberg

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.

Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Assyrian Prove

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

Sydney Harris

How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsly

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Thomas H. Huxley

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

S? ren Kierkegaard

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

Noel Coward

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Fred Allen