People Quotes

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.

Computer Museum

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Melissa Timberman

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

William A. Orton

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Kelle

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Fred Allen

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Kelle

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Dr. Karl A. Menninge

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop, The Dog in the Mange

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.

Peggy Lee

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana