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Quotes About People

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Cultivate positive, active people with enthusiastic natures who regard life as a gift whether one is partnered or single. Remember, attitudes are contagious.
~ Barbara Feldon
Your family loves you. I love you. With love comes concern. Don't try to fight it, because you won't win. We all worry about the people we love the most, you included.
~ Barbara Freethy
The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.
~ Barbara Hall
Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
~ Barbara Hodgson
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
~ Barbara Holland
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
~ Barbara Jordan
You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
~ Barbara Levy Boxer
I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.
~ Barbara Park
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.
~ Barbara Pym
Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.
~ Barbara Pym
One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.
~ Barbara Pym
Mimosa did lose its first freshness too quickly to be worth buying and I must not allow myself to have feelings, but must only observe the effects of other people's.
~ Barbara Pym
Miss Clovis was acting as secretary to the selection committee and enjoyed the work which was congenial to her natural curiosity about people and her desire to arrange their lives for them.
~ Barbara Pym
quando em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.
~ barbara quick
Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
~ Barbara Samuel
Those deterrents—the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors—which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
People felt a sense of betrayal in the daily evidence of the gulf between what Christ's agents were supposed to be and what they had become.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Havoc in a given period does not cover all the people all the time, and though its effect is cumulative, the decline it drags behind takes time before it is recognized.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
yet he represented that emotional choice a people makes to satisfy its craving for a leader.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The lesson was not yet clear in the 18th century, as America was to learn to her cost in our own century, that the presence of disunity in the military about method and strategy, and among the nation's people about the rightness of the war aim, makes it impossible for a war of any duration to be fought effectively and won.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Treitschke who set the increase of power as the highest moral duty of the state, of the whole German people, who called their temporal ruler the "All-Highest.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
In Brussels the leaves had begun to fall, and a sudden wind blew them in gusts about the street. People felt the hidden chill of autumn in the air and wondered what would happen if the war were to last through the winter.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman