People Quotes
I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.Jean Ke
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.Dagobert D. Runes
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.Heraclitus
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.Henry Ford
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
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
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.Napoleon
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.Mandell Creighton
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.Clare Boothe Luce
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.Ira Erwin
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.Caligula
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
