People Quotes
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.Jimmy Durante
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.Mark Twain
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.Gregory Macguire, Wicked
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.Walt Whitman
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.Dwight Morrow
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.Gerald W. Grummet
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin.Bill Watterson
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
People who know the least always argue the most.Author Unknown
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.Unknown
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.Oscar Wilde
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.Sandra Cisneros
It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.Jill Peterson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
