People Quotes

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Samuel Gompers, said in 1908

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

Polly Whitney

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao - Tzu

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grummet

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

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

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Home

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Mark Leepe

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry