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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

– Carl Sagan

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

– Abraham Lincoln

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

– Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you… People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

– James Barrett Scotty Reston

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

– C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

– Benjamin Franklin

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

– Albert Einstein

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

– Brian Tracy

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

– Simone Weil

Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.

– Chinese

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

– William Lyon Phelps

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

– Aristotle

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

– Thucyclides

Though it's important that people know you, It is more important if they think you are worth knowing.

– Unknown

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

– Benjamin Franklin

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

– Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

– Dante Alighieri

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

– Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

– Cheers

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

– Carl Sandburg

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

– Jane Fonda

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

– Bertrand Russell

To be clear: I am not anti-marriage. I am anti-marrying-people-who-suck-at-life-and-will-suck-the-life-out-of-you.

– Ingrid Weir

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