People Quotes
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.Agatha Christie
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.Robert Frost
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.Joe Moore
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
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
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09 - 26 - 05
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.Dane Helmers
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.Georges Jacques Danton, to his executione
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 penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.Mary Wilson Little
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.Mahatma Ghandi
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.John M. Richardson, Jr.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.Gore Vidal
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.Johann von Goethe
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.Indira Gandhi
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
