People Quotes
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
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.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac
If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.Anatole France
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.Sinclair Lewis
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.Lady Asto
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.Latin Prove
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.W. Somerset Maugham
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.Adrian Mitchell
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
All people want is someone to listen.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.Charles Dudley Warne
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.Virginia
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
