People Quotes
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
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
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.Dave Barry
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.Kurt Cobain
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.E. M. Cioran
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.James A. LaFond - Lewis
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.Jeanne - Marie Roland
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.William Inge
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.Marchioness Townsend
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.James Arthur Baldwin
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
