“Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.”
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People Quotes — page 715 of 5018
“Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.”
“The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.”
“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.”
“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”
“A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?”
“Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.”
“Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.”
“... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”
“We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.”
“You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.”
“Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.”
“Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.”
“I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.”
“The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.”
“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.”
“Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.”
“Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.”
“When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.”
“Finding a title for a book is something that I work really hard at ... So, in Salt, I realized that the book was a lot about how people live on the earth together and who has access to the resources of the earth. So salt was a very specific thing that people needed, but it's also symbolic because of the way it comes out of the earth.”