People Quotes
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Anon.
What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.American Indian Prove
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.Mark Twain
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re - Created.Brenda Ueland
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
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
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.Robert Frost
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
People who know the least always argue the most.Author Unknown
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.George Bernard Shaw
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Oscar Wilde
