People Quotes

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
William j. locke - i believe half the unhappiness in life comes from...
Jane harrison - old age equalizes - we are aware that what is...
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninge
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
Alexander Hamilton
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.
Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolph Hitle
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
Geof Greenleaf
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
From the last episode of "Cheers".
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Proverbs 12: 15
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.
Andre Gide
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
Author Unknown
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao - Tzu
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?
E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks, Country Music
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Joe Moore