Quotes About People

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.