Top 27 Eople's Quotes
#1. Eople (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.
Garrison Keillor
#2. [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
#4. [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
#5. [P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all ... (p.24)
Milan Kundera
#6. The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
Robert M. Pirsig
#7. [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
#8. 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
#9. You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.
Heidi Baker
#10. Your will power is tested when reality brings you to your knees but dreams do not let you give up"- Detour to Canada.
Sunil Nair
#11. We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.
Callie Khouri
#12. As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.
Augusten Burroughs
#13. Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
Orson Welles
#14. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
Gayle Forman
#15. 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
#16. [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
#17. [P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.
Joan Didion
#18. We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.
Taylor Swift
#19. There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas
#20. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Richard Dawkins
#21. 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
#22. What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.
Damian Kulash
#23. [P]eople cannot be influenced by ideas to which they are not exposed.
Leonard S. Newman
#25. I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
John Gay
#27. The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.
Katherine Mansfield
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