People Quotes
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.Henry Sedgwick
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.Edward Everett Hale
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.Bette Midle
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.Dagobert D. Runes
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.Groucho Marx
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.Herbert Spence
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.Shimon Peres
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
There are two types of people - - Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.Frederick L Collins
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 only completely consistent people are the dead.Aldous Huxley
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.Joe Moore
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.G. K. Chesterton
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
