People Quotes
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.Robert A. Heinlein
I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.Ayn Rand
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.Susan Sontag
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.Jane Austen
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.Anonymous
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.Mark Twain
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.Helen Kelle
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.Ernest Hemingway
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.Danish prove
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.Isarel Gallegos
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.Laurence J. Pete
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.James F. Hind
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.Edward Eggleston
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
