People Quotes

"Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'"

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good"

Socrates, Philosopher

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"

George Orwell, Author

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting"

George Orwell, Author

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed"

William Penn, Leader

"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission"

Andrew Jackson, President

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

Roger McGough, Poet

"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

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