"People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer."
Read quote
20 likes
People quotes
People
100.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to People
Browse quotes that often appear alongside people — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
People quotes (page 162 of 5018)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them."
Read quote
20 likes
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."
Read quote
20 likes
"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
Read quote
20 likes
"That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it."
Read quote
20 likes
"The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear."
Read quote
20 likes
"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."
Read quote
20 likes
"Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing."
Read quote
20 likes
"If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart."
Read quote
20 likes
"Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy."
Read quote
20 likes
"I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news."
Read quote
20 likes
"Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad"
Read quote
20 likes
"It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success."
Read quote
20 likes
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
Read quote
20 likes
"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position."
Read quote
20 likes
"People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply."
Read quote
20 likes
"I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities."
Read quote
20 likes
"When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone."
Read quote
20 likes
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
Read quote
20 likes
"The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings."
Read quote
20 likes