People Quotes

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.

Rush Hou

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

The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Alcuin

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.

Julie Morgenstern

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.

Joe Moore

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Alessandro Pronzato

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

Isarel Gallegos

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfield

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

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

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Charline Jordan

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Author Unknown

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.