People Quotes

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

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

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Alan Corenk

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Frederick Nietzsche

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

Joe Moore

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

Robert Zend

Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.

Peggy Lee

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

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

People forget how fast you did a job - But they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln