People Quotes
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.Anatole France
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.Dan Quayle
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.Lao Tse
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.Paul Duncun
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.Herbert V. Prochnow
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.James F. Hind
The voice of the people is the voice of God.Alcuin
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.Isarel Gallegos
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.Fred Allen
