People Quotes

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

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

Fred Allen

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

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

Agnes de Mille

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Marcel Proust

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra, Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

James Earl Jones

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Steve Martini

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

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Wilbur N. Nesbit

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lam

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Nancy Lopez

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.

Harold J. Seymou

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Unknown

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Author Unknown

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

From the last episode of "Cheers".

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

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

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

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