People Quotes

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

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Jean Ke

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Dave Barry

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

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

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

U. S. Constitution

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Assyrian Prove

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.

Victor Borge

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.

Kevin R. Hutson

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

Kenneth Chang

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Robert M. Pirsig

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.

Cicero

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Tshunka Witko

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson