“Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.”
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People Quotes — page 868 of 5018
“When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather”
“People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.”
“Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.”
“The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.”
“The prayers of all good people are good.”
“I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers.”
“I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.”
“People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.”
“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”
“The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.”
“People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.”
“A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.”
“I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.”
“Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.”
“One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.”
“You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”
“Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.”
“There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.”
“There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”