People Intelectualfacts Quotes

There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts. ~ Samuel Johnson

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body. ~ Mark Pryor

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be. ~ Samantha Sotto

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else. ~ Bill Mechanic

Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Hurting people is such a boyish thing to do. ~ Rebecca

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives. ~ H.G.Wells

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else. ~ Edward James Olmos

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. ~ Willie Aames

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening ... ~ Lisa Kleypas

Sometimes it's about knowing people, all of the time, it's about knowing God! ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection, so how, in the long run, can things improve? ~ Thomas Muntzer

I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know. ~ Craig Johnson

Many people remember to include miles to their clients or vendors. However, what about those trips to the office supply store, bank, post office? These miles add up. Do not forget the miles! ~ Jeffrey A. Schneider

His eyes once did land on a longer piece of writing in which she put down her thoughts about the mystery of time. How one moment flowed into the next and that into the following, and so on, making an endless chain of tiny packets that defined one's existence. How no one could know what any approaching moment might hold. How they whisper by like leaves in a stream or hurtle past with great uproar, each with the prospect of changing the lives of people and nations. ~ Donald Smith

Well, now I'm all jealous. I wish I had little voices in my head. Guess I'll just have to settle for people really being out to get me."
"Bitch," she said cordially.
"Bimbo. ~ Rachel Caine

People usually told him the same joke two or three times. ~ Walker Percy

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who ... It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing ... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even
and especially
when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions ... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean. ~ Joseph Sobran

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life. ~ Martiros Saryan

One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it. ~ Paul Levinson

Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me ~ Arturo Perez Reverte

The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes. ~ Ada Palmer

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. ~ Shimon Peres

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you! ~ Cynthia Lord

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist. ~ Erwin McManus

In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books. ~ Andy Seven

What is happening
in Africa
(& elsewhere)
is because
the men
did not listen
to the women
& the women
did not listen
to the women
either
& because
the people did not listen
to each other
& themselves
& because
nobody listened
to the children
&
the poets.

- Alice Walker ~ Zainab Salbi

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. ~ Calvin Coolidge

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them. ~ Dorothy Day

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you. ~ Jessica Fortunato

[22]"The fact is that archetypal images are so packed with meaning in themselves that people never think of asking what they really do mean...In reality, however, he has merely discovered that up till then he has never thought about his images at all. And when he starts thinking about them, he does so with the help of what he calls "reason" - which in point of fact is nothing more than the sum-total of all his prejudices and myopic viwes. ~ C.G. Jung

Love'
Two perfectly happy people ready to gamble ~ Karan Patade

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change. ~ Jonathan Nolan

I don't want to name names because I don't want to draw too many direct comparisons but the history of Fascism is populated by people who need to subjugate other people and elevate their status and power to a level which is supreme. Usually, any psychological study of those people will reveal a sort of lost, damaged child, who is somehow heartbroken and doesn't have any self-worth. ~ Tom Hiddleston

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy. ~ Aeschylus

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you? ~ Dan Gable

Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people ... Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others. ~ John Wimber

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new. ~ Lindsey Kelk

It's not that I want to kill people, I just do it to stop them talking. ~ Otsuichi

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them. ~ Sebastian Horsley

He is a good and a great man; but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views. It is better, therefore, for the insignificant to keep out of his way, lest, in his progress, he should trample them down. ~ Charlotte Bronte

I'm not that interested in people. ~ Taylor Caldwell

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo. ~ Jill Shalvis

I don't think of Superman as being angsty, though."
"That's the problem. Most people don't. But really he's pure angst. He has a Fortress of Solitude, you know? What do you think he does there, throw parties? No. He broods. ~ Ben Monopoli

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy. ~ Ken Griffey, Jr.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. ~ Rita Dove

The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions, the argumentative proof of which would be difficult, perhaps impossible: for instance, that it is I who think, that there must necessarily be something that thinks, that thinking is an activity and operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego,' and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking - that I KNOW what thinking is. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche