People Quotes

Sandra cisneros - i always tell people that i became a writer not...
Lao tse - when the effective leader is finished with his...
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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 main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
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
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon, Imagine
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.
Kurt Cobain
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linklette
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar el Sadat
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Marc Maihueird
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Louis D. Brandeis
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray