Quotes about people
people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Charles Soule Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people want littles
Charles Simmons Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
people happy-people should
Charles Spurgeon Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.
people glorious
Charles Spurgeon He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.
people firsts praying
Charles Spurgeon Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.
people way faces
Alanis Morissette I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
people culture levels
Alanis Morissette I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.
people stories watches
Alanis Morissette I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
people giving limits
Alan Watts The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.
people complicated consciousness
Alan Watts All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.
people finding-happiness sometimes
Alan Watts People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
people needs movement
Alan Watts What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
people intellectual philosopher
Alan Watts A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
people solitude
Alan Watts I owe my solitude to other people.
people world want
Alan Watts And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.
people banking realizing
Alan Watts Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony