People Quotes

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Barbara DeAngelis

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

Richard Phillips Feynman

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Nancy Lopez

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.

Morrow Mayo

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Groucho Marx

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

John Ruskin

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

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

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `

Calvin Coolidge

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Karol Newlin

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Mei

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Author Unknown

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Sandra Cisneros

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.

Peggy Lee

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal