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For The People Quotes (page 119)

Let the people who never find true lovekeep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. Wislawa Szymborska
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. Conan O'Brien
Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves. Thomas Moore
I must be losing patience with my fellow humans," Miss Beryl went on. "Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon. Richard Russo
Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with theirlives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so. Charles Bukowski
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. Nicholas Sparks
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. Haruki Murakami
Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people. Emilie Autumn
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Terry Prachett
Bernard Baruch quote: "Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running..."
Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people. Bernard Baruch
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. Orhan Pamuk
You know what I am?" he says."What?"I'm an ordinary person."Come on."I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How horribly presumptuous to want to be anything else. But I have to tell you. I've been treated as something special for so long and I've tried my hardest to be something special but I'm not, I'm not exceptional, I'm smart enough, but I'm not brilliant and I'm not spiritual or even all that focused. I think I can stand that, but I'm not sure if the people around me can. Michael Cunningham
Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone. Michael Pollan
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading..."
It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number. Theodore Roosevelt
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. Arundhati Roy

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