People Quotes
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.Alexander Pope
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
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
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.Srully Blotnick
People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.Buddha
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffe
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.Oscar Wilde
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
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
When you tell the truth, people listen.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.James A. LaFond - Lewis
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.Eugene McCarthy
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.Alessandro Pronzato
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.Mark Twain
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.Eric Hoffe
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.Plato
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.Albert Einstein
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.John Harrigan
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.Henry Kissinge
