People Quotes
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.Dick Cavett
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.Charles Franklin Kettering
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.Ernest Hemingway
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Generous people are rarely mentally ill.Dr. Karl Menninge
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.Robertson Davies
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.Welsh Prove
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.Juvenal
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.Unknown
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.Thomas Jefferson
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
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.Gregory Macguire, Wicked
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.Dan Quayle
People only see what they are prepared to see.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.Robert Graves
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
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
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
