People Quotes - Page 9

• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Men, Courtesy

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• As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

  Jay Ellis

  Smart, Heart, Opportunity

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

  Brené Brown

  Deep Thought, Buttons, Wake Up

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.

  Edie Falco

  Fun, Impact, Games

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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  The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Strong Arms, Second Amendment

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mother, Lying, Differences

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• The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.

  Tomochichi

  Native American, Men, White

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• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• The only real people are the people who never existed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

  Rumer Godden

  Spiritual, Emotional, House

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

  Milan Kundera

  Life, World, Becoming

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Choices

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2313, Penguin

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• Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

  Andrew Tobias

  Trying, Want, Fool

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• If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Air, Television, Shooting

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, Next

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Smile, Encouraging

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Art, World, Architecture

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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• We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Book, Sight, Perfect

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.11, Vintage

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