people 
peo·ple (pē′pəl)
noun pl. -·ples
- all the persons of a racial, national, religious, or linguistic group; nation, race, etc. the peoples of the world
- a group of persons with common traditional, historical, or cultural ties, as distinct from racial or political unity the Jewish people
- Archaic a group of creatures the ant people
Etymology: ME peple < Anglo-Fr poeple, people < OFr pople < L populus, nation, crowd < ?
- person (sense )
- the persons belonging to a certain place, community, or class the people of Iowa, people of wealth
- the members of a group under the leadership, influence, or control of a particular person or body, as members of a group of servants, royal subjects, etc.
- the members of (someone's) class, occupation, set, race, tribe, etc. the miner spoke for his people
- one's relatives or ancestors; family
- persons without wealth, influence, privilege, or distinction; members of the populace
- the citizens or electorate of a state
- persons considered indefinitely people are funny
- human beings, as distinct from other animals
transitive verb -·pled, -·pling
to fill with or as with people; populate; stock
Etymology: Fr peupler < the n.
people
n.
Humankind
A body of persons having racial or social ties
nationality, tribe, community; see race 2.The humbler portions of society
mass, folk, proletariat, rabble, masses, plebeians, the multitude, the majority, democracy, crowd, submerged tenth, common people, common herd, rank and file, the underprivileged, underdogs, the public, the man in the street, commons, commonalty, hoi polloi (Greek), bourgeoisie (French), los de abajo (Spanish), riffraff*; rag, tag and bobtail*; the mob*, the herd*, the horde*, the many*, the great unwashed*, John Q. Public*, Jane Q. Public*. Family
close relatives, kinsmen, siblings; see family 1.Society in general
Converse of object
- help: Is there still the same quality of support to help people come to terms with their condition?
- encourage: However, the research shows that there are still some purchases which will encourage people to save.
- involve: The study involved 84 people ( aged 80 years or older ) who were given a thorough clinical evaluation.
- meet: I've met people who take cannabis who swear they'll never touch something stronger.
- enable: Enabling disabled people to get into work would make a substantial contribution to achieving the aspiration of an overall employment rate of 80 % .
- affect: What pleases me most is that the vast majority of requests for information have been about issues that affect people 's lives.
Adjective modifier
- young: People with AF over 65, or younger people with certain ' risk factors ' , have a medium risk.
- disabled: The majority of working age disabled people become disabled at some point during their adult life.
- most: Early weekday evenings or Sunday afternoons suit most people.
- many: These days many positive people only go to their clinic three times a year.
- old: In addition, older people will be active participants in the tracing study.
- Many: Effects on Humans Many people are confused about the way climate change affects them.
Possessives
- life: In the years we have been in business, we have influenced a lot of people's lives.
- perception: What I see as elegant is different to other peoples ' perceptions.
Preposition: of
- age: It also is very entertaining and i think that people of all ages would like it.
- faith: Another thing: people of mixed faiths can share schooling, but still revert to their own group if sectarian strife breaks out.
Preposition: from
- background: Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and disabled people.
Preposition: with
- disability: The council says the changes will also be fairer to people with disabilities, who have now been given greater access to concessionary travel.
- diabetes: Some sessions are specifically for people with diabetes who are new users of insulin.
- impairment: Have you got any induction loops for people with a hearing impairment?
Cannesis10,000 people looking for10 people who really count.
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and18,000 people boo?
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you takethe energy processseriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
But then they danced down the street like dingle- dodies, and Ishambled afteras I've beendoing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'
Like so many ageing college people, Pnin had long ceased to notice the existence of students on campus.
There ain't twelve hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
J'ai choisi mon peuple noir peinant, mon peuple paysan, toute la race paysanne, par le monde. I chose my black people struggling, my country people, all country people, in the world.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!
A great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make: We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
All the nice people were poor; at least, that was a general axiom, the best of the rich being poor in spirit.
It's always full of all the people I'd hoped were dead.
Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.
About the time you are writing a line that you have writtenso oftenthat you wanttothrow up, that isthefirst time the American people will hear it.
The American peoplewere like him: cheerful, optimistic, patriotic, inconsistent, and casually inattentive.
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
There are checks and balances in governmentöthe checksgo to candidates and the balance to the people.
Alcohol is a very necessaryarticle It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord G of hosts.
The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
There is no easy popularity, in that I believe that people accept that there is no alternative.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
The best people never land, sir.
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joyand that it is this which will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
He stood at bold defiance with his prince; Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.
What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est. What iseverywhere, what isalways, what isbyall people believed.
Four score and sevenyears ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equalwe here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 510
Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen. One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.
Nobody can't do nothing never at all for Irelandöyou can't help people against their will; that's what it comes toölet it go, let it go.
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last, Which causes many people to feel a little downcast.
Avotary of the desköa notched and cropt scriveneröone that sucks his substance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.
A nation's art isgreatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
Glasgow, the sort of industrial city where most people live nowadays but nobody imagines living.
We have seen todaya gallant, civilized and democratic people betrayed and handed over to a ruthless despotism.
Likethemain-travelled road of life it istraversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate.
Tratersare a unfortunate class of people.If they wasn't they wouldn't be traters. They conspire to bust up a countryöthey fail, and they're traters. They bust her, and they become statesmen and heroes.
'My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,'said he gently,'that is not good company, that is the best.'
Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine¤ a' se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re¤ alite¤ ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f
Democracy isthetheory thatthe commonpeopleknow what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
I am reported to be 'pessimistic'about broadcasting [The] truth is that I have anticipated its complete disappearanceöconfident that the unfortunate people, who must now subdue themselves to'listening-in', will soon find a better pastime for their leisure.
Conquered people tend to be witty.
Party platforms are contracts with the people.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulationof words.If youcan control themeaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
How soon country people forget.When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Cricket? Itcivilises peopleand createsgood gentlemen.I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe. I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
Cultured people practise self-examination with trepidation and fear.
DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.
This is the day of atonement; but do my people forgive me? If a cloud knew loneliness and fear,Iwould be thatcloud.
'I don't think I understand people very well.I only know whether Ilike ordislikethem.' 'Thenyouarean Oriental.'
From his childhood onward this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers by the score, and will be taught to believe himself as of a superior creation. A line will be drawn between him and the people whom he is to be called upon some day to reign over. In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour round the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic alliancewill follow, and the end of it all will bethattheCountry will be calledupontopay the bill.
Eating people is wrong!
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
That the whole or any part of the education of the people should be in State hands, I go so far as anyone in deprecating A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another.
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
The law of Moses is harsh and severe, as for an enslaved and stubborn people, but it punishes theft with a fine, not death. Let us not think that in his new law of mercy, where he treats us with the tenderness of a father,God has given us greater license to be cruel to one another.
Nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraidöthe little along with the great and powerful. Those are American principles, American policies.We could stand for no others. Theyare also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.
One of the great advantages of Ireland as a place of residence is that a large number of excellent people never go there.
Amid the wreck and the misery of nations it is our just exaltation that we have continued superior to all that ambition or despotism could effect; and our still higher exaltation ought to be that we provide not only for our own safety but hold out a prospect for nations now bending under the yoke of tyranny of what the exertions of a free people can effect.
We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.
The Pressisatoncethe eyeand the earand thetongue of the people.It isthe visible speech, if not the voice, of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world.
My theory isöwe don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do.We hardly ever go in and bring them out.We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody's there.
The Hunschanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious inhis life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.
Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big oneöan thenö Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhereöwherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'öI'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildöwhy, I'll be there. See?
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
I repeatthat all power is a trustöthat we are accountable for its exerciseöthat, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.
The power of kings and magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative; transformed and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright.
Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.
OnereasonItry toget peopletocall me Newt istobreak down barriers. It's a whole lot easier for someone to say, 'Newt, you've got a spot on your tie,'than it is to say 'Congressman'.
Salus populi suprema est lex. The good of the people is the chief law.
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
No one in this world, so far as I knowöand I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help meöhas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
I hate'Humanity'and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 'Humanity'generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.
I hate people who play bridge as though they were at a funeral and knew their feet were getting wet.
L'Enfer, c'est les Autres. Hell is other people.
If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.
'Babe' Ruth and Old Jack Dempsey, Both Sultans of Swat, One hits where the other people are, The other where they're not.
Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤ de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤ du peuple opprime¤ , le distort, le de¤ figure, l'ane¤ antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.
How many people is the earth able to sustain?
The humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful in the world.Their great misfortune is that theyalwayshaveterrible leaders who makethemsuffer.I am not sure I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad.
The greatest thing a humansoul everdoes in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi,'tisno matter whatthey think; theyare sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong: their judgement is a mere lottery.
If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.
'Mourning is a hard business,'Cesare said.'If people knew there'd be less death.'
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people Living for today.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
If you ever run into an industry that says it needs better people, sell its shares. There are no better people.You have to use ordinary, every-day people and make them capable of doing the work.
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position.On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of societyas one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth.On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.
The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of privategain; itcannot be hiddenaway for thebenefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for.
Roosevelt will probably go down into American history as a great hero. It is one of our Heavenly Father's characteristic jokes upon the American people, and in the usual bad taste.
who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the skyöfilled with pretty people?
Let my people go.
God be merciful untous, and blessus; and causehis face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the peoplepraisethee,OGod; let all thepeople praisethee.
The IncomeTax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
In the springtime of America's cultural life, its itinerant folk artiststook totheroad to record the life and times of a people.Perhaps never again will we have an artistic record created in such direct and unassuming terms.
Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.
It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.
Iusedtothinkgettingoldwas about vanityöbut actually it's about losing people you love.
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Running a cemetery isjust like being President: you got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
No se le hab|¤a ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se hab|¤a inventado para burlarse de la gente. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.
The propagandist's purpose istomake oneset of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickeryöa confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
Eisenhower hasa magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Egbert, is it true that married people live longer? No, it just seems longer.
Itell you (and Ipray God it benot laid toyourcharge) that I am the martyr of the people.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
I should never call myself a book lover, any more than a people lover: it all depends what's inside them.
His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April,1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
Most people are relieved to find a superior on whose judgment they can rest. That, indeed, is the difference between most people and Generals.
There is only one truth, and many opinions. Therefore, most people are wrong most of the time.
Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
Not bad. Most people myage are dead.You could look it up.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
La plupart des hommes emploient la meilleure partie de leur vie a' rendre l'autre mise¤ rable. Most people spend the greater part of their lives making others miserable.
Very few factors help produce economies of scale. Technology may be one, but not people.When it comes to motivating people and using their brainpower, you hit diseconomies of scale early. At that point, bigger isn't better.
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a piece of it, just like you.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people.
The criminal law is no use to decent people.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. 100
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Observing these people I am no longer surprised that there is such a scarcity of domestic servants at home.
Of all the clever people round me here I most delight in Meö Mine is the only voice I care to hear, And mine the only face I like to see.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
But that whichmatters, that which insists, that whichwill last, that! o my people, where shall you find it, how, where, where shall you listen when all is become billboards, when, all, even silence, is spray-gunned?
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, theyare still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
Ein Reich, einVolk, ein Fu« hrer. One realm, one people, one leader.
There's no such thing as a heroöonly ordinary people asked extraordinary things in terrible circumstances öand delivering.
We don't pay taxes.Only the little people pay taxes.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, and the spirit of conditions that are unspiritual. It is the opium of the people.
Other people's babiesö That's my life! Mother to dozens, And nobody's wife.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|¤da del imperio espan ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|¤a insospechados No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa¤ cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio¤ n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.
If our people can build Angkor Wat they can do anything.
The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains isgoing home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Washington is a town where more people probably contemplate writing a book than finish reading one.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that yeshould shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Somepunishment seemspreparing fora peoplewhoare so ungratefully abusing the best Constitution and the best king that any nation was ever blessed with.
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. Theyare to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Thesorts ofthingsthat Icanfind out about myselfarethe same as thesorts of things that I canfind out about other people and the methods of finding them out are much the same.
Make a joyful noise unto the L, all ye lands. Serve the L with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the L he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
öthrough metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the L be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
There won't be any revolution in America The people are all too clean.Theyspend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves.You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
Mura tig's ann thea' nas ni a Hallaig a dh' ionnsaigh sa' baid nam marbh, far a bheil an sluagh a' tathaich, gach aon ghinealach a dh' fhalbh. If it does not, I will go down to Hallaig, to the Sabbath of the dead, where the people are frequenting, every single generation gone.
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyöand the system is brutal!
I believe that people are like portmanteauxöpacked with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the UltimateTrain and away they rattle.
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
People are not fallen angels, they are merely people.
Thus you see, Sir, that these people are not so unpolished as we represent them.'Tis true, their magnificence is of a different taste from ours, and perhaps of a better. I am almost of opinion, they have a right notion of life. They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some sciencetowhichwe canneverattain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labours.Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
'Well, of course, people are only human,'said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women.'But it really does not seem much for them to be.'
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. 804
There is a misunderstanding by marketers in our culture about what freedom of choice is. In the market, it is equated with multiplying choice. This is a misconception. If you have infinite choice, people are reduced to passivity.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honestyand how few by deceit.
The people are the masters.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half'. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
Americaörather, the United Statesöseems to me to be the Jewamong the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm- hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.
The people arose as one man.
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.
Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums,Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.
'Twould ring the bells of heaven The widest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind, pit ponies, And little hunted hares.
It is increasingly rare for many of usto believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms, its humour, its music.How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed, that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.
Well, people change and forget to tell each other. Too badöcauses so many mistakes.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitönot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
Les gens ne changent pas. Ce sont les choses qui changent. People do not change.Things change.
People don't choose their careers. Theyare engulfed by them.
In New York people don't go to the theateröthey go to see hits.
People don't very much like things that are beautifulötheyare so far from their nasty little minds.
People don't resent having nothing nearlyas much as too little.
Many peopleapparentlydon'ttrusttheir reactionstoart or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it.In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.
People do what you pay them to do, not what you ask them to do.
People find ideas a bore becausetheydo not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Authors and uncaptured criminalsarethe only people free from routine.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
The people have spoken and the politicians have had to listen.
I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
People in nutrition do get the idea that theyare going to live to be150. And they never do.
Onenever, ofcourse, knowswhat peopleinportraits are thinking.
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.
Ninety-ninepercent of the people inthe world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodöthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.
The people know what the land knows.
Writers are much more esteemed in Russia, they playa much larger part in society thantheydo in theWest.The advantage of not being free is that people listen to you.
People live within winter in a way outsiders do not understand. Theyare watchful, provident, fatigued, exhilarated.
The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may beö The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.
I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
However many people may complain about the'red tape', it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, theycan be taught to love, for love comesmore naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
People and provinces must not be bartered about from sovereign to sovereign as if they were chattels, or pawns in a game. Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
People must not do things for fun.We are not here for fun. There isno reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
People mutht be amuthed. They can't be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can't be alwayth a working, they an't made for it.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
There are people not spoken about, people not written about, people whose name is a way of saying they are not there. Hibakusha, atomic victimsöthe scarred who carry our scars.
Je connais gens de toutes sortes Ils n'e¤ galent pas leur destin. I know people of all sorts They do not measure up to their destiny.
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Not many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Ocome, let ussing untothe Lord; let usheartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
People ofthesametradeseldommeettogether, evenfor merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracyagainst the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
People of the world, unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs.
During my tenure of power, myearnest wish has beento impress the people of this country with a belief that the legislature was animated bya sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice Deprive me of power tomorrow, but you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives, from no desire to gratifyambition, or to attain any personal object.
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it isthat we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it Macaulay down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till theyare fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever.
People out of work are not given to talki
Print this Page
Suggestion Box
Send to Friend
