- Laugh
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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
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is there are people who love horror movies. I don't happen to be one of those people.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Borrowers' is the story of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of houses and borrow from the occupants. I may have tried to pull up a plank or two because of it.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020