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Quotes About People

The people who are known are riding the crest of some wave. Now, you can ride the crest of the wave and try to use it to get power, which is the standard thing, or you can ride the crest of the wave because you're helping people that way, which is another thing. But the point is, it's the wave that matters
~ Noam Chomsky
Like, we can have big discussions about what society ought to look like in the future, which is fine, but that doesn't affect what happens to people in their lives right now, except extremely indirectly. What happens to people in their daily lives usually depends on small, difficult, tactical assessments about where to put your time and energy
~ Noam Chomsky
There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do it?they simply aren't being allowed that opportunity under the current economic system.
~ Noam Chomsky
Thats the danger of democracy: If organizations can develop, if people are no longer just glued to the tube, you may have all these funny thoughts arising in their heads, like sickly inhibitions against the use of military force. That has to be overcome, bit hasn't been over come.
~ Noam Chomsky
The new stage of capitalism recognizes that serving the genuine needs of people can be less lucrative than selling predictions of their behavior.
~ Noam Chomsky
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
~ Noam Chomsky
The original notion of production, historically, anthropologically, was for use only. That is, the interaction between people and the physical world produced goods that were useful.
~ Noam Chomsky
one element in the social revolution will be "that intelligent and truly noble part of the youth which, though belonging by birth to the privileged classes, in its generous convictions and ardent aspirations, adopts the cause of the people.
~ Noam Chomsky
Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far.
~ Nora Ephron
If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.
~ Nora Roberts
It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
~ Nora Roberts
People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.
~ Nora Roberts
but I never let it apply to me. Not to me. People matter, how they feel, how they connect, who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
~ Nora Roberts
Getting many tourists these days? No. The word was so flat and final, Shelby nearly laughed. You could always try land mines and barbed wire. It amazes me how anyone so in tune with people could dislike them so much. I don't dislike them. Grant heaped eggs on another plate. I just don't want to be around them.
~ Nora Roberts
She like you.' The fact pleased Malcolm, as if he often trusted the opinions of animals over those of people.
~ Nora Roberts
He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often though, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.
~ Nora Roberts
He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.
~ Nora Roberts
Can't do much about it as person's the root of personal. We can't stop being people, or it wins.
~ Nora Roberts
We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you've been the police, you just don't understand why people do what they do to people.
~ Nora Roberts
They inhabit the earth, live among people. Lots of politics and protocol." Dana sat on the floor. "Anything
~ Nora Roberts
I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.
~ Nora Roberts
History makes the best gossip. And tomorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, tomorrow's going to take care of itself anyway, isn't it?" He
~ Nora Roberts
She had lessons on politics, and found them annoying, as people talked too much, did too little.
~ Nora Roberts
In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.
~ Norman L. Geisler