People Quotes
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.Mary Wilson Little
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.Doug Larson
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
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.George Eliot
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.W. Clement Stone
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.J. P. McEvoy
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.George Jean Nathan
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
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
People forget how fast you did a job - But they remember how well you did it.Howard Newton
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
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, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.John Wooden
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
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)
