Quotes About People

I think we will send you money periodically. Not that money will solve anything, since you're alone, broke, unsettled, and unreliable. But we're all unreliable and broken somewhere inside and sometimes it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breaking nothing but your own solitude. That's how people find each other, and understand.

These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

Into it all came Winnie, eyes wide, and very much amazed. It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed. It was…comfortable. Climbing behind Mae up the stairs to see the loft, she thought to herself: "Maybe it's because they think they have forever to clean it up." And this was followed by

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

When we are moved primarily by fear, sooner or later we precipitate the very calamity we dread. If we fear condemnation, we behave in ways that ultimately elicit disapproval. If we fear anger, eventually we make people angry.

The policies that demean self-esteem are the policies that sooner or later cause a company to lose money—simply because, when you treat people badly and disrespectfully, you cannot possibly hope to get their best.

Once again we note that poor self-esteem can show up as lack of generosity toward the contributions of others or a tendency to fear their ability—and, in the case of a leader or manager, an inability to elicit their best from people.

For many people, self-surrender and self-sacrifice are far easier. They do not require the integrity and responsibility that intelligent selfishness requires.

Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for them.

Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not mingle, are but dreams.

The future is never more important than to a people on the verge of a cataclysm.

have nothing but sympathy for John Adams. I, for one, can't stand sitting on a beach—an activity (if you can call it that) to which many people devote their entire vacations.

Her name was Annie, and she, too, owned a dog. She said that Alexandria was "the most dog-friendly city in America." There were so many dog day-care centers in town that people asked each other, "So where does your dog go to school?

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. And I became afraid of myself for stirring up such hatred in others.

It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness.

Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was to make of modern society one giant Heisenberg effect in which the media were not really reporting what people did; they were reporting what people did to get media attention.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.

People are vessels," Jeri had said to her. "They hold whatever's poured into them." And apparently Greyson had drained them and refilled them with something far more palatable.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

Important work," Jeri quipped, "often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

As far as authority is concerned, calm people quietly dying is a lot easier to deal with than angry people fighting for their lives.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.