People Quotes

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do"

Olin Miller, Writer

"One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them"

Olin Miller, Writer

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories"

George Carlin, Comedian

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"People fall forward to success"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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