People Quotes

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws"

Andrew Jackson, President

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges"

Andrew Jackson, President

"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending"

Andrew Jackson, President

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"People never believe you"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"People never notice anything"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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