People Quotes

Lord chesterfield - be wiser than other people, if you can, but do...
Lord macaulay - many politicians lay it down as a self - evident...
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Khrushchev
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.
Brenda Ueland
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J. R. R. Tolkien
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Mark Twain
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. Maxwell
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".
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
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
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
George Washington
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".
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Marc Maihueird
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address