Quotes Tagged "people"

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.