People Quotes

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.

Laura Antoniou

People will forget what you said People will forget what you did But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things Ive done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Ivo Andric

Never will be salvaged the people who win the consent of the creature, at the cost of the dissatisfaction of the creator.

Husayn ibn Al

Of course, I also encountered hostile reactions in campaigning. People called me names, even spat at me; I received more threats. The most remarkable people, to me, were those who apparently approved of everything I said but nonetheless wouldn't dream of voting for the Liberal Party. It reminded me of Somalia: they wouldn't vote outside their clan.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Socialize with people in such a manner that when you die, they should weep for you, and as long as you live, they should long for your company.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

You handle animals. You deal with people.

Arnold

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

John Aubrey

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

St. Augustine of Hippo

There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

Fred Astaire

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Alan Ayckbourn

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

Commodore Frank Bainimarama

Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.

Walter Bagehot

Some people say I'm a no count, others say I'm no good But I'm just a natural born travelin' man Doin' what I think I should, oh yeah Doin' what I think I should.

Hoyt Wayne Axton

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Albert Bandura

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

James Baldwin

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.

Jennifer Beals

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