People Quotes

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Prove

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Kelle

Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

Richard Needham

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

There is? nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003

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

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

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Unknown

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Lao Tse

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

George Bernard Shaw

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Missy Dizick

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

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

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Henri

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...

Samuel Adams

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.

Clay Aiken, Teen People

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".