People Quotes
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.George Orwell
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.Hunter S Thompson
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.Edward Lea
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.E. V. Lucas
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.Kahlil Gibran
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.John Henry Newman
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.Dwight Morrow
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.George Bernard Shaw
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.Joseph Stalin
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.Friedrich Nietzsche
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.Mark Twain
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
