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People Quotes (page 594)

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Thomas Jefferson
Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Nicholas Sparks
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American..."
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that. Kurt Vonnegut
I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak. James Joyce
Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.-infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips
That people should love like this, that Mr. Bankes should feel this for Mrs. Ramsay (she glanced at him musing) was helpful, was exalting. Virginia Woolf
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? “No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well. Haruki Murakami
Jack Kerouac quote: "Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down,..."
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. Jack Kerouac
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! Anne Frank
John Locke quote: "Revolt is the right of the people"
Revolt is the right of the people John Locke
The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are."- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story) Wally Lamb
Henry Ford quote: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said..."
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford
You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken? Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Georgia O'Keeffe
Hans Christian Andersen quote: "Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are..."
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter! Hans Christian Andersen

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