People Quotes
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.Herbert V. Prochnow
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.Henry Sedgwick
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.Bertrand Russell
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.Joan Baez
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.Morrow Mayo
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
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.Thomas Peters
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.Albert Einstein
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Wittgenstein
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.Albert Einstein
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.Georges Jacques Danton, to his executione
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.Edwin Percy Whipple
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
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.H. Allen Smith
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.John Henry Newman
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.William Inge
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
