People Quotes

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Jeff Greenfield

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.

Andre Gide

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Thomas Peters

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Srully Blotnick

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

C. S. Lewis

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Charline Jordan

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.

Cicero

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Will Cuppy

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

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

Jane Austen, Emma

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

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

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!

Juvenal, Satires

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

Shimon Peres

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein