People Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow.

There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and

shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

Don't let the imaginary person in your head keep you from loving the real one right in front of you.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Love them anyway.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

We are all museums of fear.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Then you shall judge yourself. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

People say strange things. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.