People Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 3

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

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

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

— 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

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

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

— John Steinbeck

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy 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

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

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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