"Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people."
Read quote
63 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 46 of 5018)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try."
Read quote
63 likes
"I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman."
Read quote
63 likes
"In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love."
Read quote
63 likes
"It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life."
Read quote
63 likes
"I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."
Read quote
63 likes
"The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace"
Read quote
63 likes
"With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them."
Read quote
63 likes
"When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you."
Read quote
63 likes
"It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror."
Read quote
63 likes
"Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing."
Read quote
63 likes
"I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish"
Read quote
63 likes
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press"
Read quote
63 likes
""You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb.""
Read quote
63 likes
"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
Read quote
63 likes
"If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government."
Read quote
63 likes
"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."
Read quote
63 likes
"Find people who will make you better."
Read quote
63 likes
"Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up"
Read quote
63 likes
"I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind."
Read quote
63 likes