People Quotes

Julie morgenstern, o magazine, belatedly yours, january 2004 - how we treasure and admire the people who...
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
Danish prove
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Lord Chesterfield
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.
Samuel Johnson
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney Harris
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
To be closer to God, be closer to people.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
George Orwell
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
Samuel Butle
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Sir V Pritchett
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.
Donna Summe
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookne
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
Carl Van Vechten
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel