People Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

... 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

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

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

— John Steinbeck

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

— John Steinbeck

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

— John Steinbeck

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he…

— John Steinbeck

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the…

— 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

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. What…

— John Steinbeck

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and…

— John Steinbeck

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a…

— John Steinbeck

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was…

— John Steinbeck

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of…

— 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

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

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they…

— John Steinbeck

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

— John Steinbeck

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I…

— John Steinbeck

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if…

— John Steinbeck

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them…

— John Steinbeck

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to…

— John Steinbeck

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

— John Steinbeck

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

— John Steinbeck

“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”

— John Steinbeck

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort…

— John Steinbeck

The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith…

— John Steinbeck

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

— John Steinbeck

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the…

— John Steinbeck

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And…

— John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,…

— John Steinbeck

Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we…

— John Steinbeck

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you…

— John Steinbeck