People Quotes

"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best"

Miles Davis, Musician

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out"

Ronald Reagan, President

"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

Ronald Reagan, President

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem"

Ronald Reagan, President

"People do not make wars; governments do"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives"

Ronald Reagan, President

"A people free to choose will always choose peace"

Ronald Reagan, President

"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people"

Lord Byron, Poet

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people"

Lord Byron, Poet

"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

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