People Quotes
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
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.Thomas Jefferson
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.Clifton Fadiman
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.George Bernard Shaw
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.John Kenneth Galbraith
There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.Joe Moore
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population.David Letterman
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.Edwin Percy Whipple
Determined people working together can do anything.Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
People forget how fast you did a job - But they remember how well you did it.Howard Newton
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.Bertrand Russell
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.Laurence Pete
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
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
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.Friedrich August von Hayek
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
