People Quotes
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.George Dennison Prentice
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!Tom Lehre
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.Albert Camus
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.Sam Malone, Cheers
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.Josef von Sternberg
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.Unknown
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.Rousseau
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.Author Unknown
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.John Ruskin
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.P. T. Forsyth
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
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
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
Two people kissing always look like fish.Andy Warhol
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
Ninety - Nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.George Washington Carve
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling
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
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.Angelina Jolie
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
