People Quotes

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Henry Clay

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Prove

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Barbara DeAngelis

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Le Rochefoucauld

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

Fran Lebowitz

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

J. Wilbur Chapman

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

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

Alexis Carrel

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche