With People Quotes

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

You just can't go around killing people!

We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

People aren't born racist.

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don't really see it.

Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.

All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them