People Quotes

"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect"

"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die"

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"

Harry Hopkins, Diplomat

"And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together"

David Hare, Playwright

"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure"

Lao Tzu, Author

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

Lao Tzu, Author

"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes"

Lao Tzu, Author

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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