People Quotes

Shakti gawain - when we create something, we always create it...
Lewis thomas - we pass the word around we ponder how the case is...
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
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 weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anon.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
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)
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Jon Wynne Tyson
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon Appelfeld
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
Author Unknown
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
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
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
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop, The Dog in the Mange
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Jacques Prvert
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Rousseau
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Mother Teresa
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.
David Armistead