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Quotes About People

I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.
~ Stephen Emond, Winter Town
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is a prepared place for a prepared people.
~ David Jeremiah
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.
~ Joan Chen
It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
~ Joan Didion
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
~ Elisabeth Sladen
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
~ Tom Clancy
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
~ Ayana Mathis
Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.
~ Alexis Tsipras
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.
~ Brooks Atkinson
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
~ Edward Abbey
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.
~ Michael Manley
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
~ Bill Gates
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
~ Tim Duncan
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.
~ Ian Hutchinson
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
~ Raymond Mortimer
Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.
~ Cameron Diaz
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
~ Jane Austen
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
~ Deborah Cox
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
~ Bill Richardson
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
~ Groucho Marx