Quotes About People

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

The system is a monster which devours people for the sake of its profits.

Sentì le giornate gelide o soffocanti - il sole che ti riscalda troppo, interrotto da un colpo di vento che ti rinfresca troppo. Solo chi ci viene in vacanza può credere che qui il clima sia dolce. Se così fosse, anche la gente lo sarebbe. Invece sono maledettamente lunatici - cambiano d'umore bruscamente, per la nuvola d'una frase o di una diffidenza.

O brave new world that has such people in it.

O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it.

Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.

Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

it was four years since he had preached that sermon; four years, and England was at peace, the sun shone, the people of Crome were as wicked and indifferent as ever—more so, indeed, if that were possible. If only he could understand, if the heavens would but make a sign!

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people—that there's even a lot more to people than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there. The experience of distance, of inner distance and outer distance, of distance in time and distance in space—it's the first and fundamental religious experience.

But the people we don't know are only characters in the human comedy. We are the tragedians.

Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French. "Well

Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can only influence them to be more, or less, like one of their own selves. In other words, he's never understood.

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there.

Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.

if you observe the social structure of the people, you only see springs of the machine, but not also the noble hand which moves it.

Em geral, as pessoas só pedem conselhos - dizia - para não segui-los, ou, quando os seguem, só para ter alguém a quem recriminar por havê-los dado.

The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority.