People Quotes
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.Albert Einstein
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.Jeremy Collie
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.Princess Anne
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.Author Unknown
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, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.Will Rogers
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.Chuck Palahniuk
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.Thomas Peters
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.Frank Lloyd Wright
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
My home is not a place, it is people.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!William James
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Ann Landers
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.Herbert V. Prochnow
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
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
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.Dorothy Parke
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
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
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.Gunnar Myrdal
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
