- Power
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
- Barbara
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.
- Bad Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.
- Consumption
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
- Nov 07, 2020
I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?
- Frighten
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020