People Quotes
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.Peggy Lee
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
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.Joe Moore
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.Agnes de Mille
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
People are more easily led than driven.David Harold Fink
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.Sidney Madwed
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
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
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
Some people make headlines while others make history.Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.Leo Tolstoy
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.Computer Museum
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.Srully Blotnick
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.Brendan Francis
