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People Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
- That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
- The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
- The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
- I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
- Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's…
- After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
- Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
- I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are…
- It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is…
- When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece…
- There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a…
- I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know…
- It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I…
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could…
- You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this…
- I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use,…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle