People Quotes
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
There are more fools in the world than there are people.Heinrich Heine
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.Shimon Peres
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.Charles Jones
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
People who keep journals have life twice.Jessamyn West
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.Clare Boothe Luce
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.Frederick Nietzsche
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.John Adams
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.Michael J. Gel
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.Benjamin Franklin
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.Harry Millne
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.Henry Clay
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.Jeff Greenfield
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.T. S. Eliot
To summarize: it is a well - Known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.Helen Kelle
