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Quotes About People

Nu avea nimic de-a face cu a schimba oamenii - uitati de asta, intr-o zi esti norocos si doar daca convingi pe cineva sa-si schimbe sosetele.
~ David Sedaris
My neighborhood is known for its old rich people and, subsequently, its hospitals. The closest of them now had a refrigerated truck parked outside in which dead bodies were being stored.
~ David Sedaris
Clients hire people, not design robots
~ Unknown
there'd be a lot of people there and he didn't like people, especially when they came in "lots.
~ David Sosnowski
Bede invented the idea of England, or at least the idea of the English as a single people.
~ David Starkey
home was where the people someone cared about lived.
~ David Weber
The majority of people didn't blush in zero-gee. Unfortunately for Carpenter, he wasn't one of them.
~ David Weber
I want full squadron attacks—no more individual horse shit here people, or I will provide some unfortunate souls with new anal orifices!
~ David Weber
This was shortly after waking up one morning and realizing that government and god were interchangeable and that most of the people in the landscape of my birth insisted on having one or both determine the form of their lives.
~ David Wojnarowicz
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
~ Dawn Powell
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.
~ Dawn Powell
Something to note if you're a people watcher: the most revealing insights are on the fringes, not at the core. A zealot leader might be a study in zeal, but a broader spectrum of colours will flash from his followers.
~ DBC Pierre
They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.
~ Dean Bakopoulos
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.
~ Dean Koontz
Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.
~ Dean Koontz
These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another...Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.
~ Dean Koontz
He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.
~ Dean Koontz
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language.
~ Yann Martel
Desde un punto de vista espiritual, un líder es sólo un reflejo de la conciencia del pueblo. Por lo tanto, ese líder sólo podrá ser tan fuerte y poderoso como lo sean las personas a las que sirve. Los líderes malos están ahí para hacernos pasar a la acción. Cuando vemos algo que no nos gusta en nuestro liderazgo, es para mostrarnos que eso es lo que debemos reconocer y transformar en nosotros mismos.
~ Yehuda Berg
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
~ Zadie Smith
The people sometimes demand change. They almost never demand art. As a consequence, art stands in a dubious relation to necessity – and to time itself.
~ Zadie Smith
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies – it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.
~ Zadie Smith
Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people's things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what's coming, sooner or later.
~ Zadie Smith
He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers.
~ Zadie Smith