People Quotes
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.Alphonse Ka
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.E. M. Cioran
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.Sinclair Lewis
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplie
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.Peter Drucke
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.James Taylo
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
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
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.Peggy Joyce
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.Agatha Christie
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.Frank Sinatra, Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
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
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.C. S. Lewis
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.Lenny Bruce
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.W. Somerset Maugham
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.Martin Luthe
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
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)
