Quotes about people




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"What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone."

Broch, Hermann on people    Share


"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

Burke, Edmund on people    Share

"But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on people    Share

"There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are."

Collins, Frederick L. on people
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"Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close."

Davis, William T. on people    Share

"The people are to be taken in small doses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people
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"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."

Goldman, Emma on people    Share

"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."

Heinlein, Robert on people
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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

Horace on people    Share

"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

Howells, William Dean on people    Share

"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."

Hunt, Leigh on people    Share

"The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on people    Share

"We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run."

Kennedy, John F. on people    Share

"All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They."

Kipling, Rudyard on people    Share

"A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on people    Share

"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on people
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"In each of us there is a little of all of us."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on people
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"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

Marx, Groucho on people
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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."

Maugham, W. Somerset on people    Share

"The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]"

Mitchell, Margaret on people    Share

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

Munro, Hector Hugh on people    Share

"When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere."

Orlan, Mac on people    Share

"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."

Ovid on people    Share

"There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy."

Pascal, Blaise on people
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on people
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"People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic."

Ruskin, John on people    Share

"Unhurt people are not much good in the world."

Starkie, Enid on people
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"We are the people our parents warned us about."

Unknown, Source on people    Share

"There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't."

Unknown, Source on people    Share

"People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you."

Unknown, Source on people    Share

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am"

Van Buren, Abigail on people    Share

"The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it."

Voltaire on people    Share

"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on people
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"I am a deeply superficial person."

Warhol, Andy on people    Share

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

Whitman, Walt on people    Share

"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."

Zedong, Mao on people    Share

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