The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellPeople are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
Dr. SeussIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry PratchettTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar WildeFind a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy PoehlerI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenEverybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
Neil GaimanI live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Herman HesseLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel ProustThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert EinsteinHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John WoodenSome people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia WoolfIn the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. EdisonEveryone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
Bob MarleyPeople are people and sometimes we change our minds.
Taylor SwiftA great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTreat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald ReaganMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale CarnegieYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale CarnegieThings may happen, and often do, to people as brainy and footsy as you.
Dr. SeussMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMy main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel ButlerLots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah WinfreyEveryone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo CoelhoMost people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleOther people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason CooleyIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Herman HesseOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar WildeWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. LewisThere are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
Paulo CoelhoIt's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad AliYour time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve JobsNothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
Mahatma GandhiPeople don’t take trips, trips take people.
John SteinbeckI love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingAll people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho MarxCity people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason CooleyKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungPeople with virtue must speak out, People who speak are not all virtuous.
ConfuciusDon't tell fish stories where the people know you, but particularly don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark TwainOne's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeThe unfortunate need people who will be kind to them, the prosperous need people to be kind to.
AristotleThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya AngelouToo many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm ForbesAll people are the same only their habits change.
ConfuciusDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeDon't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou HoltzThe greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BuddhaThe people in my songs are all me.
Bob DylanFrance and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny DeppKissing - and I mean like yummy smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do bar none. Better than sex hands down.
Drew BarrymoreAfter all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin CoolidgeDo not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George SantayanaColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanPeople buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. MaxwellThe struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Oprah WinfreyI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Arthur BaldwinI don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Joel OsteenConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand RussellMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar WildeFortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar GracianIt is only out of ignorance that people are cruel because they really don't think it will come back.
Maya AngelouFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen HayesThere is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts, it is a sword that kills.
BuddhaHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaA nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma GandhiTechnology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve JobsA drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel ButlerI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsSometimes people call me an idealist. Well that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow WilsonWhen people do not respect us we are sharply offended, yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark TwainSimple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHe who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.
BuddhaYou don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. EisenhowerEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas JeffersonI cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas MertonFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy LamarrAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart MillYou can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya AngelouIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward BeecherIn 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.
BuddhaThe human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore RooseveltMost Americans are very cool people.
Henry RollinsPeople commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human, they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren KierkegaardAmerica is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. BushI have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark TwainActing is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.
Ingrid BergmanAmericans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common, except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug CouplandWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma GandhiWhen red-haired people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.
Mark TwainPeople only hate what they see in themselves.
Marilyn MansonIt creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
EminemI have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
George W. BushPeople can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill CosbyOften people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott FitzgeraldGo before the people with your example and be laborious in their affairs.
ConfuciusFifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore VidalWealth and rank are what people desire but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
ConfuciusA toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul III have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston ChurchillWives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho MarxShe cherished her race. She cherished women. She cared for gay and straight people. She prayed nightly for Palestine and equally for Israel.
Maya AngelouSurround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah WinfreyYou are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard BachTo lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
ConfuciusI don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya AngelouI do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
Jane AustenBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. KissingerWho are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl SaganThere are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck PalahniukOnly kings, presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark TwainHe's been doing the defensive part all year long. Sometimes the people want more. Tonight he gave them more.
Kobe BryantDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensTechnology favors horrible people.
Doug CouplandIf I'm a star then the people made me a star.
Marilyn MonroeI think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George CarlinCrazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
P. J. O'RourkeAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
AristotleIn known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan WattsPeople will always choose more money over more sex.
Doug CouplandIf I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas SowellIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
ConfuciusConfront them with annihilation and they will then survive, plunge them into a deadly situation and they will then live. When people fall into danger they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun TzuProperty, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow WilsonI suggest that the great art belongs to all people all the time - that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Maya AngelouI sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin CoolidgeNever pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark TwainThere are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane AustenThere are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh BillingsThe people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason CooleyPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukIt is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenIf you shoot for the stars and hit the moon it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
ConfuciusThe great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia BarrIt has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving, or the class of people served.
Napoleon HillMy being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.
Jane AustenSome people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
George CarlinIf some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai LamaI'd like to be a queen in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
Princess DianaPeople of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis BaconWe should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward BeecherPerhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya AngelouIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainMankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
ConfuciusListen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya AngelouIsn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuEarth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug CouplandDid you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale skinny people who look half-dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill CosbyI've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya AngelouYou must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.
Anton ChekhovIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas SowellWhen you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them, either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo MachiavelliMagic trick: to make people disappear ask them to fulfill their promises.
Mason CooleyTo write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
AristotleMost people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich FrommAlways do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark TwainAmericans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew JacksonWe sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor DostoevskyIf you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlinAmericans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
Dave BarryI try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad AliSometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened.
Winston ChurchillI would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood - but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur