Quotes About People

Doch gerade in diesem Moment, in dem alle die Angst, die sie gehabt haben, oder die vielmehr sie gehabt hat, schnell aus ihren Gedanken wischen wollen, gerade da geht auf einmal das Licht aus, und einen Moment lang sind alle Menschen in diesem Raum schwarz.

In peacetime it was poverty, during the war it was the front that kept pushing people before it like a long row of dominos, people slept in other people's beds, used other people's cooking utensils, ate the stores of food that other people had been forced to leave behind. It's just that the rooms became more crowded the more the bombs fell.

This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.

The animosity in the English terms reflects a bizarre schizophrenia about the French people.

Foolish people... When I say foolish people in this contemptuous way, I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there's one person I do despise more than another, it's the man who doesn't think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If

A DEPUTATION It consists of two men and three women. Superior people would call them Cranks. But Cranks have been of some service to the world, and the use of superior people is still to be discovered.

Ciekawa rzecz, nikt nigdy nie miaÅ' morskiej choroby na lÄ…dzie. Tylko na morzu spotyka siÄ™ mnóstwo ludzi chorych jak nieszcz??cie, caÅ'y ?ywy Å'adunek cierpiÄ…cych.

You see, that's the true spirit of Christmas: people being helped by people other than me.

A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

Some people are saying she's some kind of alien sent down here from Alpha Centauri or something

He wonders if Claudia is making snow angels. He wonders if angles are invisible in the snow. He wonders if angels make people in the snow. He wonders of Claudia is an angel…" (p. 191)

War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.

I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.

Furthermore, the world of books, like meat in cans, was somehow richer and more flavorful than the everyday variety. In ordinary life, for example, one saw many people without really knowing them, while in books one even knew what people were thinking and planning.

Then a new kind of train appeared on the line. Living people were jammed in locked cattle cars.

The Party was to the working people what the engine is to a train. It led others toward the best goals, it pointed out shortcuts to an improvement of their lives. And Stalin was the engineer at the throttle of this engine.

Gavrila's teaching, not to lose a single word. He maintained that to be happy and useful one should join the march of the working people, keeping in step with the others in the place assigned in the column.

Chance became only an image for millions of real people. They would never know how real he was, since his thinking could not be televised. And to him, the viewers existed only as projections of his own thought, as images. He would never know how real they were, since he had never met them and did not know what they thought.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

fell in love with my country—its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. . . . It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

How can you not feel like a whole city of people waiting for it to finally be over, a whole city tending a parent's slow death?

She sees now that the problem of the girl will never be solved, not as long as people have the capacity to reproduce themselves. Family is the problem that recurs.

You're astounding." He runs the back of his hand over my cheek. "No. The world is astounding. I told you people are mostly good. They really are." "I