People Quotes

Max percy - the priest persuades a humble people to endure...
Johann wolfgang von goethe - treat people as if they were what they should be,...
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.
Harold J. Seymou
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.
Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolph Hitle
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.
Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
Penn Jillette
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)
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.
Jacob Neusne
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Prove
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao Tzu
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carve
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944