People Quotes
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.Philip Wylie
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.Samuel Johnson
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.Harry Millne
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
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
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.Pauline Frederick
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...Richard Phillips Feynman
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...Samuel Adams
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.Edward Everett Hale
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.Sandra Cisneros
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)
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.Barbara Charline Jordan
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.George Bancroft
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.Johann von Goethe
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
