People Quotes

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody"

"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"I buy when other people are selling"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love"

Don Rose, Radio host

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"People do not lack strength; they lack will"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people"

Confucius, Philosopher

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message"

Christian Bale, Actor

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Dogs are my favorite people"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

Philo, Philosopher

"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other"

Alex Noble

"Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent"

Ed Smith

"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Know people for who they are rather than for what they are"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain, Author

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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