Quotes on People

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.