Quotes About People

First, the Laws will work to transform you into a calmer and more strategic observer of people, helping to free you from all the emotional drama that needlessly drains you.

First and foremost is the existence throughout history and in all cultures of people of high rationality, the types who have made progress possible. They serve as ideals for all of us to aim for.

What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life.

It sounded legitimate when one put it that way – governing through the people: what could be fairer? – but really 'the people' were the mob

normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes".

It takes numerous encounters with positive people to offset the energy and happiness sapped by a single episode with one asshole.

How errors of human judgment can infect even the smartest people, thanks to overconfidence, lack of attention to details, and excessive trust in the judgments of others, stemming from a failure to understand that others are not making independent judgments but are themselves following still others—the blind leading the blind.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

people with devious minds saw calculation in his honesty.

Over and over and over. We make the same mistakes. Kingdoms do the same stupid things. Rulers fail their people time and time again. Men continue to hurt and hate and die and kill!

Two Rivers people are dark of hair and eye, and they seldom have such height." Her hand darted out to push back his coat sleeve, exposing lighter skin the sun had not reached so often. "Or such skin.

But when was I ever sensible? The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep. Whether

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

Times change. People change. Too much change for me. I suppose I am growing old.

Cities, she thought, they're the problem. Cities were stinking, festering places, like sores that never healed. Some were better than others—Elayne did an admirable job with Caemlyn—but the best of them gathered too many people and taught them to grow comfortable staying in one place.

The Stone of Tear will never fall till the People of the Dragon come.

There's a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened.

He was a modernizer, in other words, who never forgot the importance of the individual people behind the machines. His

Russia had the opportunity to take a different path that would have been far better for its people and the world, but Vladimir Putin chose otherwise.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.