Quotes About People

motives of people, she was inclined to credit any extraordinary happening attributed to the whimsical perambulations of the buried. The desperate squeakings about the old house on

Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of new people.

Goodnight, child. This is a damn shame. Let's drop it out of the picture. He gave her two lines of hospital patter to go to sleep on. So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That's an old-fashioned idea, isn't it?

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.

He felt so intensely about people that in moments of apathy he preferred to remain concealed; that one could parade a casualness into his presence was a challenge to the key on which he lived

Amory felt an immense desire to give people a sense of security.

Don't you know you can't do anything about people?

But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em. Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.

All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew it was still last night while the people in the streets had the delusion that it was bright hot morning.

My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descen

I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.

So, let's be clear, as we navigate this pandemic and future crises, people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

The greatest moral failing of meritocracy is the belief that your success, your higher perch in society, makes you superior in any fundamental sense. After all, in democracies, at least, the people's wishes are the ultimate source of authority. So, let's be clear, as we navigate this pandemic and future crises, people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

Cas Mudde, a Dutch political scientist, provides the most useful definition of populism: an ideology "that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogenous and antagonistic groups: 'the pure people' and 'the corrupt elite,' and argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people.

Ah, che errore doloroso e crasso quel distinguo che i rivoluzionari fanno tra borghesia e popolo, tra aristocrazia e popolo o tra governanti e governati. La vera distinzione risiede tra adattati e disadattati: il resto e letteratura e per di più cattiva letteratura. 176 [1929]

O valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem, por isso, existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis. The value of things, are not in the time they endure, but in the intensity they happen, that's why, exist unforgettable moments, inexplicable things and incomparable people.

I see how in everything men are slaves to their unconscious temperament, to external circumstances, to impulses to be with people or to be alone that collide in and with that temperament as if it were nothing.

a mild indifference should protect our soul from the dull blows inflicted by our unavoidable coexistence with other people.

one is as likely to encounter the eccentric as the nondescript, to find people who are but a series of marginal notes in the book of life.

Tutti sentono. Tutti pensano. Però non tutti sentono con il pensiero o pensano con l'emozione. Per questo le persone sono molte e gli artisti sono pochi.

Moral» es el conjunto de comportamientos y normas que tú, yo y algunos de quienes nos rodean solemos aceptar como válidos; «ética» es la reflexión sobre por qué los consideramos válidos y la comparación con otras «morales» que tienen personas diferentes

To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: Revolutions are not exported, they are made by the people.

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.