People quotes and sayings

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Do you think I could buy back my introduction to you?

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.