People Quotes
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing".
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.Stephen Butler Leacock
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.Deborah Martin
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
The conception of two people living together for twenty - Five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.Alan Patrick Herbert
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas A. Edison
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.Henry Ward Beeche
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
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.Bokonon
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.Harold S. Geneen
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.Samuel Butle
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Oprah Winfrey
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.Kate Chopin
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.Plato
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.Philip Guedalla
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
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
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.Lao Tzu
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
