People Quotes

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Lillian Hellman

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

Abraham Lincoln

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Anthony Robbins

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

Sir Francis Bacon

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.

George Jean Nathan

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

Ira Erwin

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Unknown

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?

Emo Phillips

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Asto

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".

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Lao Tse

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

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

John Quinton