When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
Dale CarnegieTag: people relationships prejudice vanity logic pride
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.
Kate MortonTag: life history people time names dates spirits
People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.
James McGregorTag: inspirational people philosophical accomplishments
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
James McGregorTag: people philosophical idiots
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.
Steve AlmondIn the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: humor men women people literature property ownership amazons rural-society village-life
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace StevensTag: people water thoughtful
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
John Kenneth GalbraithTag: inspirational people political investments
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
Karen BlixenTag: wisdom friendship knowledge society people curiosity
Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]
Tag: world people fitting-in betterment
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