People Quotes

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
Robert M. Pirsig
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
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.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.
Rush Hou
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.
Theodore Roszak
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
Herbert Rappaport
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.
Joe Moore
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
Charles Chincholles
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.
Morrow Mayo
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carve
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.
George Stanley McGovern
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken