Quotes About People

if ever you want to commit a murder, the thing you've got to do is to prevent people from associatin' their ideas. Most people don't associate anythin'—their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?

A novelist couldn't possibly marry all the people from whom she wanted specialised information.

principles have become more dangerous than passions. It's getting uncommonly easy to kill people in large numbers, and the first thing a principle does—if it really is a principle—is to kill somebody.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

They had merely discovered that comfortable and well-fed people are constitutionally disinclined for united action of any sort—a fact which explains the asinine meekness of the income-tax payer.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Salvation is also a sacred covenant. We might have cause to worry if God honored His covenant to save us the same way many people these days honor their marriage vows.

As Dick Ebersol put it, ruefully: "I was very sophisticated about business and not very sophisticated about people. Lorne was not very sophisticated about business and very sophisticated about people. And in the final analysis being sophisticated about people will win, every time.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered." "Yeah," said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

As if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.

Resumamos: es un hecho bien conocido que las personas que más deseos tienen de gobernar a la gente son, ipso facto, las menos adecuadas para ello. Abreviemos el resumen: a cualquiera que sea capaz de nombrarse Presidente a sí mismo, no debería permitírsele en modo alguno realizar dicha tarea. Abreviemos el resumen del resumen: la gente es un problema.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.

The people of New Zealand are generally terribly nice. Everybody we had met so far had been terribly nice to us. Terribly nice and eager to please. I realised now that all this relentless niceness and geniality to which we had been subjected had got to me rather badly. New Zealand niceness is not merely disarming, it's decapitating as well, and I had come to feel that if Just one more person was pleasant and genial at me I'd hit him.

What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed. - Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that I think a short while ago it was trying to work out how to... - Yes? - Make me some tea. - That's right guys, - the computer sang out suddenly, - just coping with that problem right now, and wow, it's a biggy. Be with you in a while. It lapsed back into a silence that was only matched for sheer intensity by the silence of the three people staring at Arthur Dent.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.

Very strange people, physicists," he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.