“The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”
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People Quotes — page 1072 of 5018
“Sometimes people do get hurt”
“If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people”
“History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.”
“Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.”
“When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.”
“Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)”
“We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.”
“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”
“There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.”
“The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.”
“Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.”
“Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.”
“You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'”
“You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.”
“We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.”
“I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.”
“Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.”
“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.”