category-People Quotes

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

William Faulkner

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Augustus Hare

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Liz Carpenter

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Albert Schweitzer

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Marie de Sevigne

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how s

Olin Miller

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them

Josh Billings

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Maximilien Robespierre

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have

Edward Everett Hale

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them

George Bernard Shaw

Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them

Unknown

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Benjamin Haydon

Drama is something people go through everyday. Change of character is nothing more than mood swings.

Kewana Bagby