Quotes About People

The stories are true in a way. They do steal people. But not in the way we thought.

In this life, he had inflicted pain upon many people without feeling the slightest twinge of compassion, yet contemplation of Shemyaza's martyrdom kindled panic in Othman's heart.

There's no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things.

Miserable people with miserable lives, buggering about in a miserable, pointless parade of misery.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

I've never understood a society of want. We don't have a society of want—not on a general level. We have a society of total surplus: unwanted goods and unwanted people.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. It is perhaps this fear of no longer being needed in a world of needless things that most clearly spells out the unnaturalness, the surreality of much that is called work today. "Since

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence -- providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Black fungus, white fungus, yellow fungus , blue fungus and so on. Keep inventing bogus fungus to cheat people.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

Keisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?" Akira: "As long as they have tags. According to the rules, if there's three people present, it's an official battle. I'm not sure how you're supposed to start it, though." Keisuke: "So killing people is just a game, huh?" Akira: "It's the only way to survive.

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

the trouble with the people on this planet is they refuse to think they refuse to believe anything except what they know

We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights.

In Taiji, the town was malefic and the people could be horrid, but the cove's most demanding challenges were personal ones: How do you survive your own sadness?

She wasn't petty, she has never been petty, has never had enough self-possession, or possessed enough self, to afford pettiness, because petty is a way people are who have something to spare.

The dictionary tells us that fiction is literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people, is invention or fabrication, as opposed to fact. The dictionary tells us that the imaginary exists only in the imagination. Logic tells us that what exists only in the imagination does not exist in reality, or actuality, which the thesaurus tells us are the same thing.

The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.