- 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
- Name
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
- Confluence
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
- Born
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
- Happy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.
- Liberty
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
- Language
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020