Eople Quotes

#1. [P]eople are insubstantial. They never last. All this fuss, it's all fuss about nothing. We're here for a while and then we're gone. People are insubstantial. They never last at all.

J.G. Farrell

#2. Eople (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Garrison Keillor

#3. [P]eople cannot be influenced by ideas to which they are not exposed.

Leonard S. Newman

#4. What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back ... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

John F. Kerry

#5. [P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

Joan Didion

#6. [P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.

Suzanne Palmieri

#7. eople - even good, impressive people - always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want - not a result of wanting an impressive thing.

B.J. Novak

#8. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Gayle Forman

#9. Eople don't know how to be happy; they wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of.

Alice Walsh

#10. [P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he's about to cry. And I don't think that's it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.

George Saunders

#11. [P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all ... (p.24)

Milan Kundera

#12. [P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.

Nikolai Gogol

#13. S.P.A.M. S.enseless P.eople A.always M.essaging

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. So long as I could see you every weekday, I was happy to love you from the sidelines.

Rachel Joyce

#15. If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. After what Holden and Kevin had told him, and what he could find himself, he just wanted to sit this guy down, talk calmly and rationally, and then beat him so bad his grandkids would be born dizzy and bleeding from the eyeballs.

Andrea Speed

#17. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

Martin Sheen

#18. I had a pet raccoon that took my tooth brush once,
But only to another room.

Rod McKuen

#19. Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Paul Hawken

#20. Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#22. I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Ozzy Osbourne

#23. PEOPLE USED to be connected to one another all the time. That's what my parents told me. Everyone had phones and computers. Everyone called and kept in touch. They used to be everything, these things that are barely remembered now. These things that mean nothing to me.

Lauren DeStefano

#24. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#25. I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.

Hassan Blasim

#26. Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

John Bruton

#27. Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

Frederick Lenz