People Quotes
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.Christopher Darlington Morley
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.Dwight Morrow
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.Herbert V. Prochnow
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.Noam Chomsky
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.Author Unknown
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.G. K. Chesterton
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.Carl Sagan
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.T. S. Eliot
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.Aesop, The Dog in the Mange
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.Herbert Rappaport
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.Thomas Jefferson
