People Quotes

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Doug Larson

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

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Robert Zend

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

Thornton

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

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.

Cicero

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

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

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Author Unknown

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen, Emma

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine

How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.

Thomas Carlyle

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.

American Indian Prove

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde