Quotes About People

Do you know what the wind tastes like? […] Mysterious spices […] that tell us about people and events far away. That we can't see. But that we can sense if we draw the wind deep into our mouths and then eat it.

I can't deal with angry people until after I've had my morning coffee.

This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.

Greed knows no bounds when it sinks its claws into people. – Rydberg

One has to be able to trust people. Or rather, one has to be able to rely on one's own judgement.

People we meet, some great in the eyes of the world and some almost invisible to the larger society, are often conduits of God's wisdom.

Community as discipline is the effort to create a free and empty space among people where together we can practice true obedience.

As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.

A prayerful life, then, is one in which we convert the world from darkness, people from mere roles to persons.

Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.

To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to recite speeches, and she naively assumed that the speeches were useful and had a purpose, but as they did not interest her she never went again. This is a very common conception of Congress; many Congressmen share it.

Washington was no politician as we understand the word, replied Ratcliffe abruptly. He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

la raison pratique pour laquelle, une fois le pouvoir échu aux mains du peuple, une majorité reçoit la permission de régner, et continue de la détenir pour une longue période, ce n'est pas parce qu'elle court plus de risques d'avoir raison, ni parce que cela semble plus juste à la majorité, mais parce qu'elle est physiquement la plus forte.

Things do not change; people change.

No one could think that the destruction of war was an economic advantage who began by thinking first of all of the people whose property was destroyed. Those

A fig for my opinion! If you fall in love with Mr. Osmond what will you care for that? Not much, probably. But meanwhile it has a certain importance. The more information one has about one's dangers the better. I don't agree to that—it may make them dangers. We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self--with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.

Ah darling, goodness, I think, never brought any one out. Goodness, when it's real, precisely, rather keeps people IN.

Why should a set of people have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of being equipped for a profitable journey, only to break down without an accident, to stretch themselves in the wayside dust without a reason?

But for me there are only two classes: the people I trust and the people I don't.