People Quotes
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.Edgar Watson Howe
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.Virginia
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
Generous people are rarely mentally ill.Dr. Karl Menninge
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.Frederick Nietzsche
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.Clifton Fadiman
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.Dick Cavett
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
My home is not a place, it is people.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.Charles De Gaulle
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.Lao Tzu
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.Charles Chincholles
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
