“I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.”
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People Quotes — page 763 of 5018
“You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.”
“People ask without wanting to know.”
“I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.”
“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”
“People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.”
“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
“After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.”
“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
“Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.”
“In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”
“I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.”
“When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.”
“That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.”
“Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.”
“There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.”
“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
“I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
“What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.”