People Quotes
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.George Dennison Prentice
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
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
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 hundred years for now? All new people.Anne Lamott
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.Victor Hugo
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.Howard W. Newton
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
Successful people breed success.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.Marita Bonne
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.Will Rogers
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.Robert Reich
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.Edgar Watson Howe
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.Pauline Frederick
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.George Mason
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.Anatole France
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.Thomas Jefferson
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.Computer Museum
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.Alex Carey
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.Dorothy Sayers
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Jane Fonda
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.W. C. Fields
