Quotes About People

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian

She'd been so hopeful that people would forget her.

He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.

I suffer from a chronic nausea—after I'm with people. The awareness (after-awareness) of how programmed I am, how insincere, how frightened.

No one extraordinary appears to be entirely contemporary. People who are contemporary don't appear at all: they are invisible.

nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature—tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.

Photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Unlike men, books were easy. They filled you with all the emotions in the world—joy, dread, fear, hurt, gratification—and then they came to an end. People were different. Unpredictable. Impossible to manage.

Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know.

In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.

Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.

Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net. For he was just a San Diego cop who drove a boat, not a true man of the sea. Not one who understands in his soul that the actions of people are like the tides that chase the moon but invariably come crashing back, with all manner of thrashing things roiling in their foamy wake.

During his years in Los Angeles, Viktor Chernenko had learned that one similarity between life in the old USSR and life in Los Angeles—life under a command economy and a market economy—was that a tremendous amount of business was transacted by people in subcultures, people whom no one ever sees except the police.

We can punish South Carolina as she deserves, and as thousands of people in Georgia hoped we would do," Sherman wrote. "I do sincerely believe that the whole United States, North and South, would rejoice to have this Army turned loose in South Carolina, to devastate that State in the manner we have done in Georgia.

Alla fine tutto andò come va sempre. E, come succede sempre, col tempo la gente dimenticò, anche se dimenticare è un processo elettivo.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Law enforcement hardened you. It made you cynical about people. Even people you loved. The people who deserved your unconditional trust.

I can't deny I was relieved. Not that I really thought something had happened to him, but occasionally bad things do happen to people I know. So far not in Jessica Fletcher epidemic proportions, but let's just say that news of the mysterious death of an acquaintance will never take me by complete surprise.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

As time passed, events became mutable. People justified their actions, and the more shame they felt about a memory, the more they chewed it over, fretting and defending and editing, until they could live with it.

The history of every people is also a history of its craziness, and the more science becomes a religion, the more religion must pretend to be a science, desperate for all logical explanations.

Why did the Church restore to Judaism the very converts it had just spent the better part of the Crusades trying to obtain, according to Dr. Netanyahu? Because the converts were bad Catholics? No, not all of them. Or because they were too good at being Catholic? No, not all of them either. Rather, the reason was because: as long as the Catholics still required a people to hate, the Jews had to remain a people doomed to suffer.

I think we're losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here," said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.