Quotes About People

like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

Feeling pressured into doing something I didn't want to do for people I didn't want to please.

There are just some people in the world you can't please except by not pleasing them. And life's too short for making drama, you know? Sometimes you just gotta play nice, even when someone else is trying to grind your Play-Doh into the rug.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!

Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.' She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.' 'But that will never mean I love you less,' he said.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

people hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is—that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues.

I remember love. It's what I have to keep on reminding myself. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.

The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

I remember on the day I was separated from Froi outside the Paladazzo, I learned that I could be loved. That was his greatest gift to me. From you, I learned that I could love my people. Don't ever underestimate the power of that.

Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic.