Quotes About People

Among his people, it was a long known truth, perhaps the only truth, that Nature fought but one eternal war. One foe. That, further, to understand this was to understand the world. Every world. Nature has but one enemy. And that is imbalance.

The castellan is bundled like a corpse and you don't find that somewhat unusual?' 'Could be afraid of the sun or something. No reason to be suspicious. You never met any strange people in your day, Tor?' And Torvald Nom glanced across at Scorch, and found he had no reply to that at all.

The lessons of civilization.' 'Just so. There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.

The memories of his people were, Karsa Orlong now knew, twisted things. Surrendered to oblivion when unpleasant, burgeoning to a raging fire of glory when heroic. Defeat had been spun into victory in the weaving of every tale.

Life belonged to other people, and his only claim to it was his power to take it from them. Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.

Torvald Nom: "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." Karsa Orlong: "With words." "Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone's saying it right back at you." – HoC 236

Always keep it simple. Complex ideas make people nervous. Complex ideas as people to think, and people don't want to think.

There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.

But, she wondered now, where was the crime in that most human of capacities: to carry in one's heart a contradiction, to leave it unchallenged, immune to reconciliation; indeed, to be two people at once, each true to herself, and neither denying the presence of the other? What vast laws of cosmology were broken by this human talent? Did the universe split asunder? Did reality lose its way?

IT'S NO SIMPLE thing,' he said, frowning as he worked through his thoughts, 'but in the world – among people, that is. Society, culture, nation – in the world, then, there are attackers and there are defenders. Most of us possess within ourselves elements of both, but in a general sense a person falls to one camp or the other, as befits their nature.

If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.

He had no intention whatsoever of sleeping in that house. Why, people could probably drive right up to it!

Scientists are people, and they are subject to the influences of their times. Theories explaining the world change diachronically or vary synchronically not only because of variation in the available data, but because of change and variation in the people producing the theories. Objectivity itself is culturally constituted.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

But people did not warm to Beacon. Instead, they began thinking for the first time that this fun thing called Facebook was something that maybe they could not trust.

Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free. - Urs Hölzle

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

men ran to fill all ten positions. To pull that off required the cooperation of men who would normally have been your rivals." "And the same thing will happen again this year, because the people will demand it!" Lucius thought otherwise

The secret to our success is that we live in a world in which knowledge is all around us. It is in the things we make, in our bodies and workspaces, and in other people. We live in a community of knowledge.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.