People Quotes

"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star"

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do"

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"People everywhere love Windows"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact"

Willa Cather, Author

"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless"

Willa Cather, Author

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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