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Quotes About People

An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.
~ Philip Yancey
He invented terrible stories…incredible machinations. Really the most striking thing about all these people was their incredible love for the extraordinary. They had to feel that they were exposed to the most extravagant dangers. They saw enemies in all whom they did not know.
~ Philippe Soupault
I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
~ Unknown
Se si tenesse nota diligentemente di ogni luogo visto e di tutte le persone conosciute lungo il corso della vita, ciascuno di noi avrebbe i dati necessari per disegnare con precisione il proprio itinerario in terra.
~ Unknown
A few are addicted to mud. They wallow in it constantly." "They can't have many friends." "That's the funny thing! They have almost as many friends as the clean people. The trouble is, the friends are all the same kind of people.
~ Piers Anthony
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless
~ Piers Anthony
Oh, yeah?" Grundy cut in. "I happen to know that someone leaked copies of several of those texts to Mundania, including that one, so a whole bunch of people must have seen it!
~ Piers Anthony
Ich kenne keinen sicheren Weg zum Erfolg, nur einen zum sicheren Misserfolg-es jedem recht machen zu wollen.
~ Platon
And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.
~ Plato
It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another.
~ Plato
he will find people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of salesmen. In well-ordered states they are commonly those who are the weakest in bodily strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;
~ Plato
Anything but madmen, Socrates; the young men are much madder who pay them money; and madder still those, their relations, who entrust young people to them; maddest of all, the cities which allow them to come in and do not kick them
~ Plato
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.
~ Unknown
For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity's progress toward justice and peace.
~ Primo Levi
For this were given to her people for the service of her person, and others to take her there. For the ward and conducting of her, I was ordered by the King, our lord.*
~ Unknown
There was an absurdity to places far, a sense of insignificant people scratching meaningless earth. Let them die, she would sometimes think, whenever she heard tidings of famine in Ainon or plague in Nilnamesh. What are these people to me? These places? A fool … that's what she had been.
~ R. Scott Bakker
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
People don't always take us seriously," she continued. "People come to HorrorLand and think it's all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.
~ R.L. Stine
All those decaying zombies eating people and tearing out their guts." She laughed. "Cool!
~ R.L. Stine
See? he said, with an unholy amount of glee. I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often. No. Trust me, you shouldn't, Eve said. Think of all the little old people and the children.
~ Rachel Caine
You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now? No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey. Michael, straight-faced, said, He's got a point, because I would definitely take pictures. So would you. Eve had to grin. Yeah, I would. Okay, then. But you'd look glam. I could fix you up with silver eye shadow to match.
~ Rachel Caine
Well, now I'm all jealous. I wish I had little voices in my head. Guess I'll just have to settle for people really being out to get me. Bitch, she said cordially. Bimbo.
~ Rachel Caine