Quotes About People

He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.

Of the true mysteries of the universe . . . the one we may never solve is the mystery of other people. This is the underlying subject of all fiction--Who ARE you, and why are you different from me?--from a NYT Book Review review of Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane

You remember. And so Us against Them became the world. But the more fear is used to motivate people, the more afraid they will become, the more fear will come to define their lives.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite

God knows, for all the power of this office, the President is rarely nothing more than a public relations man trying to talk people into doing things they ought to do

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

Because in the end it was just about people: mothers, fathers, friends, foes, sisters, brothers, children born and not yet born, sons, and daughters; people from all over the United States and then all over the globe, whose lives would never be the same. Because the world changed that day, slowly and then all at once.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

The interview itself is normally conducted by a board of three to five people.

Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Compare Nietzsche's doctrine of the necessary connection between suffering and art: "What must this people have suffered, that they might become thus beautiful." 6