People Quotes - Page 603

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.

I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!