People Quotes

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Oscar Wilde
Robert henri - there are mighty few people who think what they...
Frederick douglass 1817 - 1895 - if there is no struggle, there is no progress....
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Victor Hugo
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
Gore Vidal
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parke
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
Virginia Woolf
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
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
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Bertolt Brecht
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Haniel Long
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - In finding themselves.
Andre Gide
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
P. T. Forsyth
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Warren Bennis
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
Peggy Joyce
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinge
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
From the last episode of "Cheers".
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
John Whitehead
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
Italian Prove
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco