People Quotes
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Bake
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Jane Fonda
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.Albert Einstein
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyge
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.Simone Weil
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.Malcolm S. Forbes
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where there is no vision, the people perish.Proverbs 29: 18
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.Art Linklette
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.Deborah Martin
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Billie Holiday
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.Mother Teresa
