People Quotes
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.T. S. Eliot
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
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
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.Casey Stengel
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
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
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.Alan Corenk
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.Lee Iacocca
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.Herbert Samuel
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.Oscar Wilde
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!William James
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.Tom Lehre
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.Sandra Swinney
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.Haniel Long
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
