People Quotes

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Old school - mitch true love is hard to find, sometimes you...
Martin luther king, jr. - history will have to record that the greatest...
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, 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
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
U. S. Constitution
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
Heinrich Heine
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle, 09/88
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
John Whitehead
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 seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Bake
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
E. M. Cioran
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.
Juvenal
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Mathew Allen
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
George Mason
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninge
Determined people working together can do anything.
Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthu
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Patricia Moyes
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffe
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffe
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Asto
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)