“People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.”
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People Quotes — page 579 of 5018
“Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.”
“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”
“Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.”
“The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.”
“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”
“On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.”
“A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.”
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”
“Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”
“If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.”
“You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.”
“Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.”
“We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.”
“But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.”
“When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.”
“All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.”
“It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.”
“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir”
“I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.”