“The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.”
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People Quotes — page 625 of 5018
“Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.”
“Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.”
“In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.”
“How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!”
“Prayers said by good people are always good prayers”
“You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.”
“I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.”
“She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.”
“Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.”
“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.”
“Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.”
“I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.”
“Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'”
“[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.”
“Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.”
“What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.”
“From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.”
“The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]”