People Quotes - page 21

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. (George F. Kennan)
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed. View quote
Kanye West
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. View quote
Montesquieu
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. View quote
Montesquieu
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. View quote
Ai Weiwei
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. View quote
Shana Alexander
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. View quote
Jack Kerouac
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. (William Ewart Gladstone)
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. View quote
Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. View quote
Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. View quote
Edmund Burke
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. View quote
Wallace Stevens
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. View quote
Gore Vidal
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. (Robert Frost)
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. View quote
Robert Frost
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. View quote
Robert Frost
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. View quote
Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James