“The only secret people keep is immortality.”
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People Quotes — page 776 of 5018
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.”
“He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.”
“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”
“I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.”
“I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.”
“It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.”
“I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.”
“Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.”
“When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.”
“I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.”
“I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.”
“If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s the narcissist?”
“To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.”
“I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.”
“I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.”
“It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.”
“The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.”
“I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.”
“Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.”