Quotes About People

These people were complete fucking idiots. And worse, they were complete fucking idiots who thought they were geniuses. The most dangerous kind, but just the kind the American people loved to vote for.

a great many people were entranced by Obama's platitudes. Giving speeches, it turned out, was the only thing he was good at. But those speeches made him president. --- National Review, April 4, 2019

After Kelsey had been taken, she'd quickly learned that people had a finite tolerance for the suffering of others. Empathy went only so far before their personal comfort levels maxed out, and they started backing away from displays of grief.

Life is people and people are memories. I keep my memories close by taking pictures, you see?

Monsters didn't live in your bedroom. They lived in your town or one just like it. They probably had jobs and neighbors and maybe waved to people passing by as they mowed their lawns.

One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter. But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may find good witches and bad witches.

For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward.

The answer is to decriminalize and to ignore drugs. They don't profit people then and nobody is interested.

Empty leaves fly with the wind, Empty people fly over time.

Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until they are finished, so by this time he was saying: "Do you understand these rights?" "No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!

When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.

And of course there are the people whose energy fields are too strong," he said with a sly look at Rob. "You know, the people you agree with even when you don't know why. The ones that put you under a spell with their charisma-their energy just knocks you out.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

I tried to warn her," Linda said, "but you could tell she'd gotten into it. She changed. She began hanging around with undesirable types, rough, tough people. I'd see her in bars and she always seemed to go after the street people.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.