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 OrwellLove is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.
Mark TwainPeople are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
Dr. SeussTo 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 AustenLove can make even nice people do awful things.
Jude DeverauxEverybody 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 HesseYou can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Nicholas SparksThe 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 EinsteinA lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt.
George CarlinHappiness 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 WoodenCommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham LincolnSome people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia WoolfIf people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinThat's the true spirit of Christmas, people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry SeinfeldIn the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark TwainThere are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark TwainYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. EdisonNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark TwainIt is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor HugoEveryone 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 SwiftPeople are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Paulo CoelhoA 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 ReaganSuccessful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim RohnShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon BonaparteIt had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da VinciIf you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya AngelouMost 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 CarnegieMost folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnYou 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 CarnegieThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice WalkerThings 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 ButlerWhat is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve MartinLots 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 WinfreyGive the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
BuddhaSome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinSome rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareEveryone 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 CooleyI've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya AngelouIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouDo the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah WinfreyIt is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.
Albert EinsteinHard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar WildePeople aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Cassandra ClareClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark TwainIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert EinsteinPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Herman HesseWhy do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki MurakamiOften it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Herman HesseYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Bob MarleyLoving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne DyerNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert CamusMany people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar WildeIt is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen KellerWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. LewisKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark TwainThere 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 KingMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson WellesAll people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho MarxTo 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.
BuddhaI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltCity people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason CooleyTo say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas PaineKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungI 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 CarlinPeople with virtue must speak out, People who speak are not all virtuous.
ConfuciusFirearms are second only to the Constitution in importance, they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George WashingtonDon'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 WildeOnly a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor W. AdornoThe unfortunate need people who will be kind to them, the prosperous need people to be kind to.
AristotleIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean PaulIf I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand before I mix with other people, otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne FrankThe 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 SantayanaPeople 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 OsteenI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson WellesConventional 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 WildeIn most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve JobsThe human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. TrumanFortunate 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 GracianAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. NixonIt 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.
BuddhaIt wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are the more human you are.
Drew BarrymoreHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaIt's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WilsonI have as much authority as the Pope I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George CarlinTechnology 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 JobsBoth oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people and therefore deprive them of their arms.
AristotleMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeA 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 TwainAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James MadisonSimple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesI'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody AllenHe 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 RochefoucauldLife is like a grapefruit. Well it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh and some people have a half a one for breakfast.
Douglas AdamsAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnPeople always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThere is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin FranklinAll 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 JobsPeople hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward BeecherI can calculate the motion of heavenly, bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonIn 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 RollinsDon't knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin HubbardEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas JeffersonAmerica 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. BushThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople become attached to their burdens, sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard ShawOne of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas SowellI 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. JohnsonWhen 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 CosbyMost people would rather get than give affection
AristotleThe moment at which two people approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven't. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
Douglas AdamsOften 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.
ConfuciusIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeFifty 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.
ConfuciusWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinA 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 IIMost people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert EinsteinI 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 WinfreyTo lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
ConfuciusI 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 you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.
Mother TeresaThe hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie ChaplinIf 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 SowellUnity is vital for all wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should be the unifying force.
Sai BabaIf 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 sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin CoolidgeI knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl SandburgAttitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
Charles R. SwindollNever 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 CooleyI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukUntil the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen KellerExperience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxIf you lead the people with correctness who will dare not be correct?
ConfuciusIt 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 AustenA little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick DouglassIf 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.
ConfuciusI'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
Hedy LamarrIt 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 CarlinYou have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor SwiftIf 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 teach their dogs to sit, it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch HedbergIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainIf one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar WildeIf the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack ObamaMankind 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 AngelouAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund BurkeIsn'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 am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert EinsteinI'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 MachiavelliTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. RooseveltMagic 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 JacksonWhat is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less and so they don't hire.
Barack ObamaWe 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 DostoevskyGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlinDon't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin PowellPeople want to listen to a message word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person is what attracts people.
Bob MarleyI 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 AliHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore VidalMost people with low self-esteem have earned it.
George CarlinSometimes 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 ShakurYou see, most people think Great God will come from the sky, Take away everything and make everybody feel high, But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth.
Bob Marley