People Quotes

Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

Orson Scott Card

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

Terry Pratchett

(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

Christopher Hitchens

As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day

Henry David Thoreau

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP Only he didn't say 'doggone.'

Kurt Vonnegut

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Abraham Lincoln

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution

Thomas Jefferson

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

Samuel Johnson

Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Ronald Reagan

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

Jane Austen

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

Leo Tolstoy

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.

David Lynch

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen