Quotes About People

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Czes?aw Mi?osz

In writing, we cannot help but wonder whether our work will help people or harm them. The truth can never harm. That is certain.

It was as if solidarity with them– with people– was pushing me toward the edge, and I could be with them only by falling.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

All over the world people are now sleeping in their beds, or perhaps they are engaged in some idiotic pastime; and one might easily believe that each in his own way is doing his best to deserve destruction. But that destruction will bring no freedom.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

Not queer at all," replied her ladyship, smiling very kindly. "I'm sure lots of people go through their weddings in a sort of dream—I know I did—and it must have been even more dreamlike for you because there were so many people you didn't know." Lady Steyne laughed and added, "Anyhow there's no need for you to worry, everyone says you looked very sweet and behaved beautifully.

That was *not* a joke, she said in mock disapproval. So you have no business to laugh. It is very sad when people don't see your jokes - and lots of people can't, for the life of them, see mine. My jokes are either very subtle or very poor - I can't think which it can be.

I came here to escape. You know that, I told him. Why didn't you rescue me from those awful people? I hate people. I told you they wouldn't snub you. I only want to be left in peace. They can't do that. It's snubs or kisses with that bunch. I guessed it would be kisses today.

Well, you asked me," said Ash. "I mean—well—you asked me, didn't you? I wouldn't have read them but there wasn't anything else to read—it was in hospital, you see." "Most people like my books," said Miss Walters faintly. "Most people are saps," said Ash.

This last book of the diary was more modern in tone and there were little touches of humour in it—as if Miss Antonia had recovered from the sorrow of her youth and made friends with life—it had been written by an old woman, but a woman who had moved with the times and was vitally interested in people and affairs.

It's a great blessing to have a good memory . . . it's my picture book and I can turn over the leaves when I like. So many of my memories are centred here in Dunnian, so many people have lived in the old house. There were seven of us and they're all dead except me, but I can see them if I shut my eyes. Their youth is here—still here in Dunnian.

Homes slid past—hundreds of thousands of houses—and each one was a home, a secret place where people slept and ate and quarreled and made up again, where people were happy or miserable (or, even worse than miserable, were hopelessly resigned). Every house had its own peculiar atmosphere, its own peculiar smell, so that although there were dozens of houses, all alike to look at, they were all quite different.

You see, art makes people think. Blok didn't want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.

This is a characteristic image from the Bright Young People's world: the thought of sorrowing in sunlight, good times gone, the myriad champagne corks bobbing away on a stream turned unexpectedly chill.

I love the individual sport stuff but the experiences I've had with some great people over 12 or 15 years are what makes is special. That individual thing: me versus the bowler is great but you get that team feeling as well and that's why it suits me so well.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

I think Hong Kong people's struggle for democracy is similar to David versus Goliath. But this struggle is not just about me.

I think there's too much emphasis on making sure our corporations are OK versus making sure our people are OK.