With People Quotes
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.
What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.
Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.
While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.
People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.
I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.
So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups.
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.
What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?
I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
