Quotes About People

it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

After all, to cultivate clever people is merely a way of dining out, and a priest has no right to go out to dinner in a world full of starving people.

Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.

and I'm disgusted with dreams now — I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and to talk to — music that makes holes in the sky.

Yes, there's a lot I have learned about flowers. They're just like people. Put too many together and they get on each other's nerves and start to wilt. Mix some kinds and you get what appears to be a dreadful form of class distinction.

I'm sure it's an epidemic,' she exclaimed at last, peering down nervously into the street. 'Nonsense, Mother; don't fuss,' said Larry airily. 'But, dear, so many of them … it's unnatural.' 'There's nothing unnatural about dying. People do it all the time.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't even there. — George Santanaya As

Whatever God is He's in them. Not everyone. But in some people. He sort of doles Himself out a little, and He shows up in people where you'd never expect it. Huguette and Father Latour and Kruis and Mr. Munk. God gave a little piece of Himself to make 'em.

If you are a leader, the people are your work.

In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered.

Linear models tend to define relationships in terms of roles rather than people: the boss rather than the person actually exerting influence. The organic model tends to define relationships in terms of one unique person to another unique person.

Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered.

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Sep-11 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty million pages of documents. It's a good number, I think: ten pages for every person who died. A kind of monument in paper for people who have no gravestones.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.