People Quotes

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Joseph Conrad

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Joseph Conrad

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death He is going to pay his debt to society, but: They are going to cut off his head. It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

Albert Camus

In the same way as you cannot work with bees without being cautious, you cannot work with people without being mindful of their humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

Oscar Wilde

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

Most people are boring and stupid.

Oscar Wilde

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Orson Scott Card

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

All through the day I'm so confident. That's why I'm such a good salesman, you know? I have confidence, and I look like I have confidence, and that gives other people confidence.

Kurt Vonnegut

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Oscar Wilde

No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.

Terry Pratchett

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Aristotle

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato

You try to make plans for people, and the people make other plans

Terry Pratchett

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All people are insane, he said. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Kurt Vonnegut