People Quotes
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.Eric Hoffe
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.Frederick Nietzsche
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
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
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.Author Unknown
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.Anthony Robbins
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
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
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Wittgenstein
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.U. S. Constitution
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.Oscar Wilde
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.Horace Greeley
People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?Emo Phillips
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
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
