People Quotes

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you.

Douglas H. Everett

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

Jonathan Swift

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

Adolf Hitle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.

Charles De Gaulle

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Nancy Lopez

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Mark Twain

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia

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

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann