People Quotes

"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"I let the American people down"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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