With People Quotes

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

I sent a lot of ladies to the hospital. If you go and look at my record, a lot of the people I knocked out never fought again, or maybe one time and that was it.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

People have good and bad days.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.