Quotes About People

Valuing people means adopting an overt willingness to be inconvenienced. It means doing things that cannot be measured. #connected

Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I am astonished at my own indifference," he added, "as I never pretended to be brave; it distresses me at times when I am cool and capable of reflection to think how indifferent we become in the hour of battle when our fellow men fall around us by scores…. My God what kind of a people will we be?"27

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

When I opened my eyes 82 years ago I found myself suddenly here, in existence, which struck me as marvellous, tremendously moving and energising. I'm here, this is my life! And these people coming at me, these strange, beautiful, marvellous people! You want to get a grip on that, to clutch that sense of what it is to be in the world.

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

There's more to people than what you can see, isn't there, Aunt Lillian?" Immediately, Lillian pursued the subject. "What do you mean? He respects you, I hope." "Respect" in the aunts' vocabulary meant "no sex." "Yes, he respects me.

There are people who have been touched by, let's call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they're no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that's a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word "barbarian" or the Daily Mail uses "Europe.

A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.

And they can hold a sustained conversation, which indicates human levels of intelligence. Although, to be fair, I've met some bare stupid people who could have a conversation, so that might not prove anything.

There was also a great absence of people, including behind the mahogany-topped reception desk. Now, there's a time when an unlocked premises is a positive boon to a police officer as in – I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances which were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, M'lord.

I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

I found that when people are nursing a grievance it's a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.

A romantic," said Nightingale. "The most dangerous people on earth.

We're walking down to the east side of the Model Boating Pond because I reckon there'll be fewer people to notice that I'm carrying a talking fox around my neck.

In the first place I don't 'make' anybody do anything," she said. "I merely offer people the opportunity to participate in the glorious pageant that is my existence on Earth. In which they come away greatly enriched, both emotionally and spiritually.

Seawoll's people would provide containment in case things went pear-shaped, while Dr Walid stood by with a mobile trauma team to help any poor bastard who had the bad luck to have their face fall off.

Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural?

It rains. The arc lamps gleam through the monotonous downpour. One can only stand and dream … how charming people are since they are alive … how charming the rain is and the night. … And how foolish arguments are … how banal are these cerebral monsters who pose as iconoclasts and devote themselves grandiloquently and inanely to disturbing the paper masks.

Art is a contagious business. Perfectly normal and marvelously wholesome-minded people are as likely to succumb to it as anybody else. It is significant that the Purity League meeting in the city a few weeks ago discussed the dangers which lay in exposing even decent, law-abiding people to art, any kind of art.

One of the hazards of having a good idea is that intelligent people tend to realize it is a good idea and seek to play a part.

We eat in silence, listening to the rain. Both of us look forlornly at the bar, thinking that we shouldn't, we mustn't. On the other hand, we could simply pass out drunk here and maybe they'd take us to jail. There are beds in jail. Soap. New people to meet.