People Quotes
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.Thomas Jefferson
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
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Bertrand Russell
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
There are too many people, and too few human beings.Robert Zend
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.Ed Cunningham
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.Ernest Dimnet
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
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
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!William James
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
