People Quotes

James lovell, speech to girl scouts in dupage county, illinois, 1997 - quoted in the chicago tribune 2 - 3 - 03 - there are people who make things happen, there...
Johann von goethe - treat people as if they were what they ought to...
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
Charles Simmons
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R. Murrow
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
Geof Greenleaf
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.
Nigel
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.
Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
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
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lah
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
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Michael Winner, British film directo
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.
Mark Twain
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reine
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
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, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.
William James
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay
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
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszezynski Stanislaus
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinge
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