- Believe
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
- Brunt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.
- Talking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any family, the joy of a wedding must be tinged with a little anxiety. So many marriages fail. Luckily, people often get over such traumas. But for the Royal Family, marriages carry the gravest dangers.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020