Quotes on People

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

People don't start wars, governments do.

Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.