People Quotes
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.C. S. Lewis
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.Robert Cecil
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.Brendan Francis
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.George Bancroft
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
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.Philip Wylie
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.Doug Larson
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.Stanley Baldwin
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.Unknown
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.Charles A. Cerami
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
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
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
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
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
