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Quotes About People

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
~ Margaret Thatcher
When Jesus called his followers "the salt of the earth," he was telling them that they were irreplaceable, and that their mission was to give people what makes life worth living.
~ Unknown
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
~ Unknown
There were at least four people who realized that Inspector Stanislaus Oates, only lately promoted to the Big Five, was being followed down High Holborn by the short, squat, shabby man who yet bore the elusive air of a forgotten culture about him.
~ Margery Allingham
Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.
~ Margery Allingham
These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come from many places. They come in many different colors and sizes. But they are all beautiful.
~ Unknown
the elite of our people" had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society. He used the pseudonym
~ Margo Jefferson
mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much.
~ Margo Jefferson
mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much. Let me say with care that the blame is not symmetrical: my enemies forced my loved ones to ask too much of me.
~ Margo Jefferson
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.
~ Unknown
These words came, quite clear, like small, evil people, across the cobbles to Branza's ankles, where they stood and smirked up at her.
~ Unknown
loves was about the people who loved you
~ Unknown
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
~ Marguerite Moreau
Missionary thinks he's telling the truth," Tjikuu says. "But he doesn't understand the ancestors because he has forgotten his own. We should feel sorry for Missionary. People without ancestors are people without yesterday or tomorrow.
~ Mari Serebrov
But who's ever safe? Down below us are the kind of people who walk armed into churches and movie theaters and through libraries, blast fevers into federal buildings, and build bombs out of things they bought cheap at a hardware store. What kind of myth is it, that people like them are keeping the rest of us safe?
~ Unknown
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
~ Marian Anderson
Holding a majority in the decisions that impact people's lives, life, should mean that you hold a majority in wisdom, reason, soul.
~ Unknown
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
~ Marianne Moore
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
~ Marianne Williamson
Consider what story you want to tell. Consider what tale should embody the spirit of our age, when people look back on this time. Will it be the tale of domination that some today sought to write? Or will it be the harmony whose passing my ancient brother immortalized in clay and gold?
~ Marie Brennan
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
~ Marie Curie
Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
~ Marie Curie
Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.
~ Marie Curie