People Quotes
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.Larry McMurtry
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man? s lawful prey.John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), British poet, artist,
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Arthur Baldwin
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
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)
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.Author Unknown
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.Robert Sheckley
