- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
- Emphasizing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020