With People Quotes
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.
Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.
I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.
It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.
I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.
I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.
I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.
You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
People don’t care enough. They don’t get worked up enough. They don’t get angry enough. They don’t get passionate enough. I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.