People Quotes

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Katharine Whitehorn

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people … have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

William Cobbett

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun, Sustainer of life. I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race — the natural élite of mankind — to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'.

The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good — in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

"You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.
"You're still in touch. I guess that's the test."
"Barely — barely."
"A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."
Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist.

Maxfield Parrish

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Wallace Stegner

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Czesław Miłosz

People of quality know everything without ever having been taught anything.

I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

Morrie Schwartz

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.
It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Is it a terrible thing to be lonely?