People Quotes
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.Barbara DeAngelis
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.From the last episode of "Cheers".
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
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Ann Landers
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.James Earl Jones
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
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.Samuel Butle
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.Stephen Butler Leacock
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
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 dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.John Berge
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.Tshunka Witko
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.Dave Barry
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
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
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
