Quotes About People

This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.

Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love.

Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful—just stupid.)

But liking cats is hard to fake to a cat person. There are cat people and there are others, more than a majority probably, who "cannot abide a harmless, necessary cat." If they try to pretend, out of politeness or any reason, it shows, because they don't understand how to treat cats—and cat protocol is more rigid than that of diplomacy.

river shots or nearby mountains. Oh, yes, Dallas—we destroy Dallas spaceport and should catch some ships; were six there last time I checked. Won't kill any people unless they insist on standing on target; Dallas is perfect place to bomb; that spaceport is big and flat and empty, yet maybe ten million people will see us hit it.

God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television

Solipsism, for heaven's sake! God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television—that makes just as much sense!

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness.

By the 1990s, of course, the U.S. government no longer considered people who showed respect for the Constitution to be suspected Communists. Instead, such people were considered suspected Terrorists.

Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.

I can't put the profession ahead of the people it's supposed to serve," Susan said. "It would be like teachers who care more about education than students.

There were circles where people knew me better. Of course, they weren't circles anyone wanted to move in.

people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. Robert Benchley (1889-1945)

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

My wife likes to say there are two kinds of people, those chasing pleasure and those running from pain. Maybe she's right, I don't know. What I do know is this: Pleasure helps you forget. But pain, pain forces you to hope. You tell yourself this can't last. Today could be different. Today something just might change.

Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don't know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.

The cold grew until Cole felt numb. He stared at Steve Brown's house, and wondered who these people were and if everything the woman told Pike was lies. Cole

both Neptune and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in the orbits of the other outer planets. It made me think that planets weren't so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.

I hadn't heard it when I'd been in the house before, but when I was in the house before there'd been other people and things going on. Now the house seemed abandoned and desolate. Life in an Andrew Wyeth landscape.

We have to look at the people who opened the case, and see how they're tied with the I-Man. Melon gave me a hint. He told me the I-Man never does anything alone, and only with people he trusts. He wasn't implying they're honest." "What

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