People Quotes
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.R. H. Grant
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.Matthew Arnold
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
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
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.W. H. Auden
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.Robert Henri
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.James A. LaFond - Lewis
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.Epictetus
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.P. T. Forsyth
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.Will Cuppy
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
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
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
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
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
