Quotes About People

However sad a man may be, if you can persuade him to take up some diversion he will be happy while it lasts, and however happy a man may be, if he lacks diversion and has no absorbing passion or entertainment to keep boredom away, he will soon be depressed and unhappy. Without diversion there is no joy; with diversion there is no sadness. That is what constitutes the happiness of persons of rank, for they have a number of people to divert them and the ability to keep themselves in this state.

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the doorknob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters, no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row -Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row" (1965)

Well...you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way -- especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged, It's only people's games that you got to dodge. From It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

The Donner Party is key because it's a study of group dynamics or rather, how group dynamics don't work. Few of us understand how quickly the veneer of civilization can be torn away from people.

He would always share the latest ideas he'd been thinking about and pass books along for people to read. Every conversation with Don allowed you to bathe in his warmth, his attention, his love of people and the grocery business, and his interest in you as a human being. And his people responded to his attention by sharing his values and providing warm and friendly services to their customers.

Populism was a grassroots movement to disrupt the political status quo in favor of everyday people.

Priebus urged Graham to build a relationship with Trump. One of the selling points, he told Graham: "You're a lot of fun. He needs fun people around him.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.

Manuel Flores va a morir,/ eso es moneda corriente;/ morir es una costumbre/ que sabe tener la gente.

I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth. Politics don't appeal to me. I don't like people who don't care about the truth.

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history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day.

The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic—for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.