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Quotes About People

Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn't solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
Brecht once said: 'All power comes from the people. But where does it go?
~ Edward Luce
If you think of ADD as a basic problem with inhibition, it helps explain how ADD people get angry quicker. They don't inhibit their impulses as well as other people. They lack the little pause between impulse and action that allows most people to be able to stop and think. Treatment helps with that but it doesn't cure it completely.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you
~ Edward Morgan Forster, NA
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. The physical sciences have rules such as the law of gravitation that generally hold true in the world as we know it. But human beings and the way they interact aren't covered by broad, unchanging theories and may never be. Instead I've come across more limited concepts that tie things together and serve as shortcuts to understanding.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.
~ Edward O. Wilson
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
~ Edward P. Jones
This work is part of what is now a huge literature on the often harmful effects of rumination and explicit analysis on people's ability to experience and identify pleasure.
~ Edward Slingerland
1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as "bigger" (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.
~ Edward T. Welch
Fear" in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
~ Edward T. Welch
We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).
~ Edward T. Welch
When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.
~ Edward T. Welch
I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Competence As many cases show, a police officer without an understanding of people will not deal competently with conflict, while one who has it can calm adversaries and ease tension.
~ Edwin J. Delattre
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
~ Edwin Schlossberg
A selfish and empty of vision and solution leadership prefers its own political and personal benefits and interests, instead of its people; indeed, it collapses in the face of ruffians and traitors of the constitution. As a reality, such a state and all institutions face conspiracies in global affairs; consequently, diplomatic isolation and trade failure become destiny; it leads towards destruction with self-adopted strategy and character.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
All Western people celebrate the celebration of Birthdays; whereas, few people marry and celebrate Wedding Day too; otherwise, the majority of unmarried people celebrate Valentine's Day. As a factual context and concept, it is a Wedding Day, without marriage.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Before focusing on whatever process, realize the surroundings and people since such awareness educates and results in precisely as your desires.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Cruelty to own people for the interests of others raises the fire of revenge in the hearts of the victims, and any enemy can misuse them for every purpose. Seed love and harvest love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Despite either people, who love one's persona or abominates as an enemy; however, among those, the majority of people stay neutral as neither carries love nor triggers revulsion and enmity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Evil-controlled people come to humiliate and insult the right people. Such people's poor background and ugly intentions are the main reasons that they cannot live without these practices. Forgiveness is their defeat and punishment.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
How I deep judge, how I deep, surprise, and shock at the brutal killing of the innocent people.
~ Ehsan Sehgal