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Quotes About People

But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.
~ Gregory David Roberts
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it's impossible to despise someone you honestly
~ Gregory David Roberts
In that poor and simple village, no-one doubted or forgot that its treasures were its people.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Are you curing people by telepathy now?
~ Gregory David Roberts
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become.
~ Gregory David Roberts
But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamique for their place, their time, and the lives of thousands of people?
~ Gregory David Roberts
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were—how much industry and energy described their lives. Occasional sudden glimpses inside the huts revealed the astonishing cleanliness of that poverty: the spotless floors, and glistening metal pots in neat, tapering towers.
~ Gregory David Roberts
People always hurt us with their trust.
~ Gregory David Roberts
to mi?o?? czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawi?? ma?ymi
~ Gregory David Roberts
News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Corruption is a tax imposed on any society that doesn't pay people enough to repel it themselves.
~ Gregory David Roberts
News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.' We
~ Gregory David Roberts
You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
~ Gregory Maguire
Weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
~ Gregory Maguire
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or defer it.
~ Gregory Maguire
St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.
~ Albert Pujols
All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.
~ Carol Kane
The influences I had were all people with versatile interests who had a large world view.
~ Robin Lopez
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
~ Noam Chomsky
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
~ Martin McGuinness
Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
~ Gore Vidal