People Quotes

La rochefoucauld - we rarely think that people have good sense...
Deepak chopra - to make the right choices in life, you have to...
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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".
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehre
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
Anatole France
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.
Kurt Cobain
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George Herbert Walker Bush
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
Baltasar Gracian
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
Shimon Peres
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
Joe Keenan
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Robert Reich
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lam
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
John Berge
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?
Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
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
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Proverbs 12: 15
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
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