People Quotes

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"We're actors. We're the opposite of people"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web"

Roger McGough, Poet

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together"

Robert South, Clergyman

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall"

Bob Marley, Musician

"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

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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

Mother Teresa, Leader

"By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself"

Menander, Poet

"I buy when other people are selling"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

Confucius, Philosopher

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"

Will Rogers, Actor

"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

"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

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"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

"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation"

Denzil Douglas, Statesman

"All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"People do not lack strength; they lack will"

Victor Hugo, Author

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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