People Quotes

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.
Jeff Greenfield
John henry newman - to holy people the very name of jesus is a name...
Logan pearsall smith - the denunciation of the young is a necessary part...
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Author Unknown
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....
Sinclair Lewis
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29: 18
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Oscar Wilde
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Shannon Mille
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Bertolt Brecht
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucald
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
S? ren Kierkegaard
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.
Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
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
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.
Brenda Ueland
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt