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. 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 WildeI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayEverybody 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 HesseHappiness 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 LincolnIf people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinIn 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 ReaganShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon BonaparteMost folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnThings 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 WinfreySome 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.
AristotleIf you can dream it then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig ZiglarOther 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 MurakamiYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Bob MarleyNobody 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 KellerKeep 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 CoelhoYour 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 WellesTo 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. RooseveltTo 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 JungPeople 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 WildeThe 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 BarrymoreA people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus GarveyAfter 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. MaxwellI 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 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 WellesA lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig ZiglarConventional 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 GoetheHow can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Rush LimbaughEvery 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 HayesA leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuIt 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 SantayanaA nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma GandhiIt'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. WilsonTechnology 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 TwainIt is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. EdisonAmericans 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 HolmesYou 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 MertonI don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless, this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly I believe if you vote you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around
George CarlinFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAny 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 MillIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsGood leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. RockefellerWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinMost people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert EinsteinShe cherished her race. She cherished women. She cared for gay and straight people. She prayed nightly for Palestine and equally for Israel.
Maya AngelouI 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 AngelouThere are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck PalahniukI 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 CarlinI 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 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 SandburgI wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
Tiger WoodsPeople 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 LincolnUntil 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 KellerA little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick DouglassThe 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 HillIf one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar WildeDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.
Steve JobsIf 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 ObamaMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen KellerInstead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret MeadMagic trick: to make people disappear ask them to fulfill their promises.
Mason CooleyThere are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar WildeWhat 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 ObamaIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
James Arthur BaldwinMost people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin