People Quotes
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.James F. Hind
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.Albert Einstein
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.Oscar Wilde
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.Dale Carnegie
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.Frank Moore Colby
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.Ernest Dimnet
One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.Rabbi David Wolpe
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.Malcolm S. Forbes
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.John Wooden
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.Francois de La Rochefoucald
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.Voltaire
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
If God dropped acid, would he see people?Steven Wright
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Ann Landers
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.Henry Van Dyke
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.Oscar Wilde
