People Quotes

Jonathan swift - some people take more care to hide their wisdom...
Francois de la rochefoucauld - old people like to give good advice, as solace...
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sidney Madwed
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.
Unknown
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
General Smedley Butle
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J. R. R. Tolkien
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `
Calvin Coolidge
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln