- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
- Nov 07, 2020
People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
- Nov 07, 2020
I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
- Ancestral
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
- Nov 07, 2020
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
- Nov 07, 2020