People Quotes

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

George Dennison Prentice

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

There isnt 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 arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Chinese Prove

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29: 18

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylo

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

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 people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

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

Cicero

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

Joe Moore

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Lord Acton

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parke

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

La Rochefoucauld

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Voltaire

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce