People Quotes

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Abraham lincoln, in a book review - people who like this sort of thing will find this...
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
Thomas C. Haliburton
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Golda Mei
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
Frederic William Maitland
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William Bennet Munro
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.
Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.
Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros
I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Ke
Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Lao Tse
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya Mannes
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
Gurdjieff
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.
Signs
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switze
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
Karol Newlin
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holme
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West