Quotes about People
Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
— Joyce Meyer
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
— Abraham Lincoln
People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.
— Marcus Aurelius
It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her.
— Margaret Atwood
Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.
— Margaret Atwood
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!
— Henry Ford
People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.
— Francis Chan
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
— Jimmy Carter
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
— Ernest Hemingway
I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.
— J. J. Watt
Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.
— Wayne Dyer