“Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.”
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People Quotes — page 560 of 5018
“The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.”
“I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.”
“At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.”
“Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.”
“The people are like water and the army is like fish.”
“The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.”
“People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.”
“Some people just cannot take certain foods. That's all. People are allergic. Some people are allergic to orange juice, can you imagine? Orange juice is very healthy isn't it? Yet some people cannot drink it without having an allergic reaction.”
“Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.”
“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.”
“I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.”
“I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.”
“Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.”
“Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.”
“Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.”
“I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.”
“The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.”
“Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.”
“I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.”