Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Voltaire

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Voltaire

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

William Empson

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

William Feather

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

William Feather

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

William Feather

We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.

William Feather

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

William T. Vollmann

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

William Stafford

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

William Styron

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

William Pollard

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

William Randolph Hearst

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

William Ralph Inge

The happy people are those who are producing something...

William Lilly

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

William Langewiesche

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

William Joyce

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

William Lloyd Garrison

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

William Hurt

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

William Boyd

I let people off the hook too easily.

William Boyd

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

William Boyd

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

William Butler Yeats

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

Wilhelm Stekel

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Will Arnett

You've got to rely on people that you trust and you love.

Wilhelm Reich

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Walter Ulbricht

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Walter Ulbricht

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

Walter Wriston

The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.

Walter Huston

Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?

Walter Dean Myers

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

Walter Dean Myers

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

Walter Isaacson

It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.