Quotes About People

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

It is unwise to assume that any one approach to motivation will appeal to all affected by it. Motivation policies and practices must recognize that people are different.

regional variations in things like slam dancing had gotten erased by MTV. "It went from each town having its own little story to it being kind of the same group of people in every town.

People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way—hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs.

The whole point is if you deal with yourself and people you can exert influence upon," said Preslar, "then maybe you can put those people in a mentality that will be beneficial to everybody else later on.

MacKaye had been drawn to punk partly because it provided a community framework for his outsider thinking. "I've always been enthralled by gangs and communes, any collection of people where it's a family kind of thing

the conclusions reached in the Goldstone Report are not worthy of consideration by people of goodwill.

That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.

He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.

Just to spite himself, because spiting himself, spiting others, spiting the world is the pastime and only patrimony of Landsman and his people.

Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention.

The civilized people in the world, the ones who hide behind culture and art and politics… and even the law, they're the ones to watch out for. They've got that perfect disguise goin' for them, you know? But they're the most vicious. They're the most dangerous people on earth.

Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story.

People lie, the president lies, corporations lie and cheat.…The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore.