People Quotes

"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma"

Ken Kesey, Author

"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth"

Ed Smith

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community"

Ed Smith

"You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent"

Buddha, Leader

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill"

Buddha, Leader

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

Buddha, Leader

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true"

Buddha, Leader

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes"

Buddha, Leader

"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I've never heard of any president being so close to his people"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters"

George Savile, Politician

"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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