People Quotes

Jimmy buffett - we are the people our parents warned us about....
George carlin, you are all diseased - you have to be realistic about terrorism. certain...
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
Bertrand Russell
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
Charles Dickens
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.
Al Franken
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Shopenhaue
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Fannie Hurst
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.
Anthony Robbins
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
Chinese Prove
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Will Durant
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Sir V Pritchett
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
Samuel Butle
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berge