People Quotes by John Steinbeck

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

— John Steinbeck

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

— John Steinbeck

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

— John Steinbeck

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

— John Steinbeck

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...

— John Steinbeck

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

— John Steinbeck

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

— John Steinbeck

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

— John Steinbeck

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come…

— John Steinbeck

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

— John Steinbeck

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

— John Steinbeck

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no…

— John Steinbeck

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften…

— John Steinbeck

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for…

— John Steinbeck

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine…

— John Steinbeck

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be…

— John Steinbeck

They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike…

— John Steinbeck

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds…

— John Steinbeck

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows…

— John Steinbeck

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves…

— John Steinbeck

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,…

— John Steinbeck

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be…

— John Steinbeck

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good…

— John Steinbeck

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline…

— John Steinbeck

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been…

— John Steinbeck

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in…

— John Steinbeck

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.…

— John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,'…

— John Steinbeck

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have…

— John Steinbeck

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where…

— John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

— John Steinbeck

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

— John Steinbeck

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

— John Steinbeck

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

— John Steinbeck

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

— John Steinbeck

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

— John Steinbeck

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

— John Steinbeck

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...

— John Steinbeck