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Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Beautiful People”
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies, 1913 – 1995, Novelist
People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –
To laugh often ……
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~Albert Einstein
“The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition”. Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
“As I See Religion”. Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932. Preacher, 1878 – 1969
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ~ Marie Curie
“Living Adventures in Science”. Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.
“‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.” ~ Mark Twain
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. ~ John Locke
John Locke, English Philosopher ~ 1632 – 1704
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~ Genevan philosopher ~ 1712 – 1778
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~ Robertson Davies
“A Voice from the Attic”. Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~ Albert Camus
Six Word Story
Pedestrians ignoring the street corner preacher.
Smarter People ~ Will Rogers
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people. ~ Will Rogers
Short, Short Story
Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.
Thinking ~ Carl Jung
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” ~ Paul Valery
Paul Valery, Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962
Money is the poor people’s credit card. ~ Marshall McLuhan
The City
people on the stoops watching the passersby hydrants open spraying cool water on the neighborhood kids ice cream truck has arrived people lining up to buy and enjoy an ice cream or something cold to drink to hot cook inside so pizza and sandwiches are the meals for the hungry the ones without a/c sufferContinue reading “The City”
“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin
Quiet People ~ Susan Gale
Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They’re just being careful about who they open up to. ~ Susan Gale
Short Story
During his morning stroll, the elderly man is curious, as to how many bricks did they use in making the one block long sidewalk. Maybe one day, he will find the answer, by the tedious task of counting the red rectangular blocks of clay.
Alice Walker Quote
Douglas Adams Quote
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~ Stephen Hawking
If You Find Someone … ~ Franz Kafka
“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.” ~ Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924)
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone. ~ Janis Joplin
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ~ Larry McMurtry
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein
Half of the American people …. ~ Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half. ~ Gore Vidal
Few people know how to take a walk. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ~ Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler – British Poet, Author 1835 – 1902
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andy Rooney
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” ~ Andy Warhol
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. ~ Alice Walker
Alice Walker – American Author, Critic 1944-
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. ~ Leo J. Burke
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~ Albert Camus
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.” ~ Yoko Ono
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” – Lucille S. Harper
“You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.” ~ Judith Light
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ~ Jim Morrison
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~ Benjamin Franklin
People are afraid of themselves ~ Jim Morrison
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake usContinue reading “People are afraid of themselves ~ Jim Morrison”
A person’s a person, no matter how small. ~ Dr. Seuss
Listen To The People ~ Molly Ivins
“Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what’s wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.” ~ Molly Ivins, Columnist – Born: August 30, 1944 –Continue reading “Listen To The People ~ Molly Ivins”
Some People Live ~ Nhat Hanh Quote
“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.” ~ Nhat Hanh
Stephen Hawking Quote
“So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth isContinue reading “Stephen Hawking Quote”
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ~ Jane Smiley
Maya Angelou Quote
People Are Strange ~ Charles Bukowski
people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice… ~Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
Some People Are Old
Genius Quotes
People Know What They Do ~ Michel Foucault
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault
Accept The Obvious
“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.” ~ Dick Gregory
Controlling The Mind ~ Edward Bernays
“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we areContinue reading “Controlling The Mind ~ Edward Bernays”
A Third Choice ~ Meg White, Musician
Ray Bradbury Quote: Television
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac
One Sentence Fiction
He’s known as the ‘why’ man, for he is always asking the why of everything.
Go To The People ~ Lao Tzu
Genius Quotes
Democracy ~ Howard Zinn
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioningContinue reading “Democracy ~ Howard Zinn”
Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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Quote: Pete Seeger, Small Villages
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ~Pete Seeger
Liberty ~ George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
One Sentence Fiction
She’s savoring the all around beauty, of the numerous wild flowers.
One Sentence Fiction
She lives in a household full of mad, whacked-out people.
Six Word Story
Living the life of a nomad.
Iris Murdoch Quote
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.” – Iris Murdoch
E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad timesContinue reading “E. B. White – Library Quote”
Bill Gates Quote
Six Word Story
The daily daydreamers bus has arrived.
The Republican Party – Alec Baldwin
When Its 100 Degrees In New York – Neil Simon
Reality Quote ~ Jim Morrison
Jack Lemmon Quote
“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon
Clean Water
“Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There’s a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.” – Matt Damon
Schools
Commitment To Equality
Technique Of Privatization
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” – Noam Chomsky
Time To Think
Nobody Is Superior
Eight Things To Remember
Listening
“Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.” – John Coltrane
Music ~ Ella Fitzgerald
“Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.” – Ella Fitzgerald
Failure
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
Quote ~ John F. Kennedy Jr.
Quote ~ Anne Frank
Religion
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.” – Harvey Milk
Quote ~ Nhat Hanh
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, theContinue reading “Quote ~ Nhat Hanh”
Telephone Quote ~ Fran Lebowitz
The telephone is a good to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz
People
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” – Eldridge Cleaver
People
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. ~Stephen King
One Sentence Fiction
Willie and Wilma are at the kitchen table, drinking day-old brewed coffee, and both are wondering why it tastes like shit.
Banking
Poor People ~ John Goodman
“People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.” ~ John Goodman
