People Quotes
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.Oscar Wilde
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.Douglas Adams
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.Bob Dylan
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.Katharine Whitehorn
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
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.Zachariah Johnson
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?Neil Gaiman
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.Fred Allen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.Jane Austen, Emma
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
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
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
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.Saki
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.J. Wilbur Chapman
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.Assyrian Prove
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.Bertrand Russell
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.General Omar Nelson Bradley
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Billie Holiday
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.Real Live Preache
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.Henry David Thoreau
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
