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Quotes About People

Her settlement, for example, were peaceable and as the calls to war had remained voluntary, they had held back, hoping it would pass. Nevertheless, they had cursed her for wanting to leave with him, telling her of the atrocities committed by his people out in the west. They had turned their backs on her in disgust when she told them he was a person, not a whole people.
~ Patrick Ness
I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.
~ Patrick Ness
Think of the armed struggle as the launch of a boat, Hughes said, getting a hundred people to push this boat out. This boat is stuck in the sand, right, and then get them to push the boat out and then the boat sailing off and leaving the hundred people behind, right. That's the way I feel. The boat is away, sailing on the high seas, with all the luxuries that it brings, and the poor people that launched the boat are left sitting in the muck and the dirt and the shit and the sand, behind.
~ Unknown
That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Things have changed. There are even fewer edges now than there were before. The world is less wild. There are fewer magics, more secrets, and only a handful of people who know the name of the wind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
They seemed to be good people. Most people are if given the chance.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Wilem snorted. "That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you." "I don't wonder why they talk," I said. "I wonder what they say.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No sabía con certeza de qué huía, a menos que fuera de la gente. Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No sabía con certeza de qué huía, a menos que fuera de la gente.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.
~ Patrick Süskind
And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage.
~ Patrick Süskind
Gdziekolwiek spojrze?, szerzy si? zaraza. Ludzie czytaj? ksi??ki, nawet kobiety.
~ Patrick Süskind
Es war aber nicht die Welt, es waren die Menschen. Mit der Welt, so schien es, der menschenleeren Welt, ließ es sich leben.
~ Patrick Süskind
You know us idle rich – so little to do, so much time to do it. That's why I took a nice long vacation, so I could do nothing with different people.
~ Unknown
When I touch people, things change, especially their perceptions. Not their underwear though. I have to draw the line somewhere. Like right there," said Lunay, pointing to the wall where a blue line squiggled across the sheetrock.
~ Unknown
But achievements differ in different men. It is not for me, unfortunately so, to build a solid house and live in it the kind of life that is lived in such houses. That is why' - and he began guzzling his wine - 'it is disturbing,' he said. 'Honest people can destroy most effectually such foundations as some of us have.
~ Patrick White
God's seeds of hope are often sown by people and books.
~ Unknown
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~ Patti Smith
I seldom visit people's homes, for despite the hospitality offered I often suffer a feeling of confinement or imagined pressure.
~ Patti Smith
Ahh, the salvation of souls, But wisdom we had not For these people had neither King nor Lord And bowed to no one And they had lived in their own liberty - Amerigo
~ Patti Smith
Also, if you're going to say that animal studies predict events in people, then we should stop eating chocolate, which can cause heart arrhythmias and occasionally death in dogs.
~ Paul A. Offit
Please, go ahead and improve society if you can, but meanwhile people are suffering, and I have a job to do.
~ Paul Auster
Such was life in France. People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.
~ Paul Auster