People Quotes: Inspirational and Thought-Provoking Words about Humanity...

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk"

Stephen King, Author

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities"

Voltaire, Writer

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself"

Mark Twain, Author

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"

Mark Twain, Author

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people"

Mark Twain, Author

"When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn"

Mark Twain, Author

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain, Author

"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish"

Mark Twain, Author

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read"

Mark Twain, Author

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy"

Mark Twain, Author

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded"

Mark Twain, Author

"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we.""

Mark Twain, Author

"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more"

Woody Allen, Director

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown"

Woody Allen, Director

"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"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Very few people can afford to be poor"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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, Dramatist

"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition"

John Portman, Architect