Quotes About People

It always surprises me how successful in life angry, small-minded people can be. I must underestimate these virtues.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I'm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

47% problem—that is, the significant number of people who don't pay income tax.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

For our own past is covered by the currents of action, But the torment of others remains an experience Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition. People change, and smile: but the agony abides.

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

All that I could hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot understand the unimportance of events.

I have heard of such cases before—that people in his condition Often betray the most immoderate resentment At such a suggestion. They can be very cunning— Their malady makes them so. They do not want to be cured And they know what you are thinking.

We most of us seem to live according to circumstance, But with people like him, there's something inside them That accounts for what happens to them.

For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation.

Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English and Americans, it's them who are shitting us up with this public opinion rot, of you'll excuse my language, we've never had their political system, we don't have their traditions, we don't even know what trade unions are, we're a southern people and we obey whoever shouts the loudest and gives the orders.

Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been, to discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age. Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

I like people, see, I really do. I just don't like them much close up.

That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

Marmaduke's theory was that, as he couldn't understand Christianity, it was safe to premise that people whose religion was a mixture of degraded Buddhism and devilworship couldn't understand it either. So he founded a Buddhist mission, to teach 'em their own religion.

Kill One, Skip One The beer garden was crowded with people in rumpled sport shirts and slacks and cool cotton dresses. It was hot, smoky, wet and rank with the odor of beer, turgidly alive with sluggish conversation and the rasping of a juke box. I bought a beer at the bar and asked if Baxter Osgood was around.

I don't think in terms of legacy. I think: I was here, and while I was here, it was incumbent upon me to make my life meaningful. And once I'm gone, that's fine. There are other people crowding in the gate. We don't want to clutter up the table with the legacy of people who've gone. There are other people. Give them a chance.

Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted

Sandry: There has to be something we can do. Lark: We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix. Sandry: Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.