People Quotes

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself"

Martin Luther, Professor

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"People demand freedom only when they have no power"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds"

Will Durant, Historian

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country"

Will Durant, Historian

"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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