People Quotes
Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet?Roger Mille
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.Simeon Strunsky
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.Idi Amin Dada
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.Thomas C. Haliburton
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.Marcel Archard
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.Author Unknown
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.Ellen Goodman
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
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.Dwight Morrow
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
