People Quotes

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns
Tehyi Hsieh

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don`t let that taint the thing you love.
Randy Milholland

The worst-tempered people I`ve ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Confess: its my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I dont go out of my way to be scary.

He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.
Geoff Boycott

Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.

"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Sir Kingsley William Amis

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.
Dorothy Allison

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.







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