People Quotes

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
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
Alexander solzhenitsyn, the gulag archipelago - if only it were all so simple! if only there were...
Ben harpe - music is the last true voice of the human spirit....
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holme
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore Harold White
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Elizabeth berg - there is incredible value in being of service to...
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin Dada
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop, The Dog in the Mange
Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
Heinrich Heine
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszezynski Stanislaus
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.
Joe Moore
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinge
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Pete
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
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck