Quotes on People

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.