Quotes About People

Why are the people all so unhappy? he asked Mister Wolf. They have a stern and demanding God, Wolf replied. Which God is that? Garion asked. Money, Wolf said.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

La realidad es para la gente que no puede dominar las drogas.

I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.

I am wonderful fun to talk to. I'm a consummate professional. People leave my parlor in states. You are here. It's conversation-time. Shall we discuss Byzantine erotica?

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

People hate people, not freedom.

When you're meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you're in—I'm in a constant low-level state of anxiety. Which produces adrenaline, and kind of shuts down—there's a difference between short-term, people-based anxiety. And sort of deep, existential, you know, fear, that you feel all the way down to your butthole. And that, I, that's…that's what I'll have when I'm alone.

But fiction-writers tend at the same time to be terribly sef-conscious . Devoting lots of productive time to studying closely how people come across to them, fiction writers also spend lots of less productive time wondering nervously how they come across to other people.

The moment of a fall from greatness often comes just when a people and a nation feel most secure. The cry the barbarians are at the gates too often comes as a terrifying bolt out of the blue, which is often the last cry ever heard.

I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this—that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world—no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

O, brave new world that has such people in't!

The world must be peopled!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king.

Oh father Abraham, what kind of people are these Christians? Their own meanness teaches them to suspect other people!

What is the city but the people?

The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors

Those strange creepy people, all picking at their little... scabs," she had complained to me when Nathan was not around. "I hate this type of—and here I thought she used a lovely gem of a phrase—"unearned unhappiness!

He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic, or the underground trains that were full of a human smell and of people who lit up tipped cigarettes and pushed with their elbows.

you love your people but you don't understand them. They find God in each other. And when they lose each other, they lose God and they're lost. And it's hard to help them

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.