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people Quotes A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ... A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. ... A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of... A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. ... A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. ... A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. ... A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much... A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. ... A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ... A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ... A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want... A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ... A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the... A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life... A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ... A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.... A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ... A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. [Sioux] ... A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a... A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ... A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or... A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth... A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of... A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ... A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not... A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. ... AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ... About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.... Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the... Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but... Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ... After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ... After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers. ... After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and... Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community... All dope can do for you is kill you … the long hard way. And it can kill the... All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ... All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ... All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ... All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, who think, who attract attention by performing more... All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every... All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in... All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ... All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is... All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. ... All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going... All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection... America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such... Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans... An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.... An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. ... Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ... And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for... And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand... And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever... Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult... Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are... Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must... Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I... As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that... As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked... As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. ... As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. ... As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands.... As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the... [Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials.] I want to talk to these people because they... Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to... At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. ... At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't... At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope... Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be... Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ... Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ... Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ... Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. ... Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn... Because of Christ's resurrection - and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him - we... Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ... Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ... Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes... Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you... Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human... Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.... Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This... Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. ... But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected... But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected... By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds... Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. ... Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. ... Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the... Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through... Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only... Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ... Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. ... Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends. ... Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and... Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the... Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. ... Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief... Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath... Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under... Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ... Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ... Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ... Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles. ... Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will... Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither... Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ... Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something... Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship... Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ... Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ... Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply... Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire... Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in... Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ... Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as... Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the... Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's... Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If... Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. ... Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a... Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down... During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if... Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. ... Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ... Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ... Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a... Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm... Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm... Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a... Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you... Fame is proof that people are gullible. ... Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How... Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays... Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul... Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most... Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. ... For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life.... For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next... Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and... Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as... Friends are not the people you meet at the top; they are the people who were with you at... Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ... Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ... Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are... From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual... From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.... From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village... Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who... God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through... God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that... Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political... Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels... Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you... Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way... Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. ... Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. ... Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. ... Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest... Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is... Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.... Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of... Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ... Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books! ... Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some... Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat. ... Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People... Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk... He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ... He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible. ... He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. ... Hell is other people. ... His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his... Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ... Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ... History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history... History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident... Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people. ... How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what... Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because... Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not... Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they... I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother... I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's... I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ... I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your... I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the... I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against... I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a... I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ... I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. ... I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not... I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent... I believe we shall come to care about people less and less…. The more people one knows the easier... I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons,... I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's... I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ... I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps... I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. ... I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the... I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck... I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how... I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them... I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things... I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the... I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.... I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I... I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take... I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake.... I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have... I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate... I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.... I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by... I let the American people down. ... I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ... I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ... I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand! ... I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? ... I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear... I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ... I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living... I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense... I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by... I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time... I think that ALL right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary... I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of... I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically... I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. ... I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't... I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day; and take... I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ... If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the... If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner;... If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of... If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good,... If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do... If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ... If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ... If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing... If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the... If none of us ever read a book that was “dangerous,” had a friend who was “different” or joined... If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot... If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ... If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ... If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ... If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our... If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. ... If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say,... If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.... If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if... If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. ... If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ... If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at... If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ... If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. ... If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. ... If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate... If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You... If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal,... If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If... If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to. ... If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. ... If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the... If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in... I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a... I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to... I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen... I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.... I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense. ... I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only... I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright... I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle... In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the... In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions: A boy can pass... In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to... In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die... In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die... In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an... In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. ... In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination,... In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that... In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely... In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy... In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. ... In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours;... Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. ... Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to... Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own... Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who... Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of... Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and... It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that... It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you... It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.... It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked. ... It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is... It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is... It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.... It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word... It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.... It is hard to ha