People Quotes
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.Edward Gibbon
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.Tom Morris
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.Welsh Prove
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.Charles Jones
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
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
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
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.W. C. Fields
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
There is? nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
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
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
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
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
