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Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
-Yiddish Proverb
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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
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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
-Alan Ashley-Pitt
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
-Marcus Aurelius
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
-Robert Benchley
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Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.
-Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
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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.
-Hermann Broch
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The ones who count are those persons who
-Martin Buber
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
-Edmund Burke
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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
-Robert Byrne
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Look, when that crowd gets to cheering, when we know they're with us, when we know they like us, we play better. A hell of a lot better!
-Bill Carlin
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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.
-G. K. Chesterton
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
-Jean Cocteau
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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.
-Frederick L. Collins
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Always remember, there are two types of people in this world. Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are!
-Frederick L. Collins
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These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons... they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven.
-Christopher Columbus
Journal of the First Voyage to America. (1492-1493)
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
-Joseph Conrad
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
-Joseph Conrad
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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
-Aleister Crowley
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Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
-William T. Davis
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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The people are to be taken in small doses.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about People
